The Sheriff of West Virginia’s Mingo County, Walter “Eugene” Crum, died after being shot twice in the head today while eating lunch in his marked SUV parked outside of the Williamstown, WV courthouse. The assailant, 37-year-old Tennis Melvin Maynard, has been accused in the killing. Maynard was taken into custody after a brief police chase that ended with him receiving multiple gunshot wounds after he exited his wrecked vehicle and raised his weapon, […]

Spotted on the interwebz today: a real-life Bulbasaur! According to Bulbapedia: Like all starters, Bulbasaur are scarce in the wild. Sometimes they can be found in secret places such as gardens, plains near large sources of fresh water, or hiding in the forest in hollow logs, but overall, they are found far more often in the ownership of Trainers. It is native to Kanto. This is great advertising for Canon, too. […]

Best part of watching local news? Catching budding talent mess up. Country popstar Carrie Underwood caught channel Fox 32 (Chicago) with, well, here’s the tweet: Quite the typo there, FOX! twitter.com/carrieunderwoo… — Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) April 1, 2013 Nuff said. Good eye Carrie. Twitter curating blog, Twitchy, has another headline: Carrie Underwood wishes Twitter followers Happy Easter with 20 minutes to spare

“Smelling is believing.” Search giant Google released another totally-real-feature today, debuting an all-new dimension within search results: smells. To get started, simply do a Google search. Let’s try an easy search first.   Then, click on ‘Nose (Beta)’! You’ll be taken to a screen that shows a lovely woman using Google Nose (Beta). Want to try it our for yourself? Great! Click on ‘Try Google Nose (Beta)’. You’ll be taken […]

The first lawmaker ever expelled from the Nevada Legislature, Democrat Steven Brooks, was arrested at gunpoint Thursday after a car chase into California only hours after his expulsion. In his third arrest since January, Brooks fled from police, who were alerted after a tow truck driver called for police assistance in dealing with an unruly motorist who had a flat tire. Even with a flat tire, however, Brooks continued to […]

In response to the Supreme Court’s hearings on Proposition 8 this week, the Human Rights Campaign launched an online Facebook movement, in which people changed their profile pictures to a giant pink equal sign: Of course, lots of other people and companies created their own versions of the equality sign:           From HBO’s True Blood:   This one is self-explanatory:   Something Grumpy Cat agrees on? […]

Last Friday, Sarah Palin was spotted at the NBA Suns-Timberwolves game wearing an inexpensive Chick-fil-A shirt (from Kohl’s). Considering her outfit at CPAC two weeks ago, it looks like the former Governor is showing that she’s in-touch, and that her clothes say more about who she supports than the size of her bank account.

Punxsutawney Phil called it wrong, and now the humans are angry. With the forecast of yet another winter storm on the way for the East Coast (called Virgil), the calls for the fat brown creature to be literally axed have grown serious. Butler County Prosecutor Mike Gmoser was apparently so enraged by this year’s lengthy winter that he issued an indictment against Punxsutawney Phil, the famous groundhog who just a few months […]

After Daft Punk released a mysterious sneak peek of their new music during an ad on March 2nd’s Saturday Night Live episode, a lot of speculation grew on just what the French duo would be releasing in the coming months. Now we know. Daft Punk’s new album, Random Access Memories, will be coming out on May 21. Pre-orders for the 13-song Columbia Records album are, of course, available on iTunes, […]

After releasing their first music video for their song “The Stampede”, Russian indie band Biting Elbows has released their second music video - for the same song. Both centered around a guy trying to escape his office, the first is known as “The Stampede” and the second is simply called “Bad Motherfucker.” They’re freaking awesome. Don’t watch if you can’t handle gore, violence, and awesomeness. Bad Motherfucker: The Stampede: