A 16-year-old girl from Nagasaki prefecture has been arrested for allegedly murdering, decapitating, and dismembering her 15-year-0ld friend and classmate. That whooshing sound you hear is 4 million aspiring horror screenwriters firing up their laptops. » 7/28/14 3:00pm Today 3:00pm

Robert Christian Kemp of Orangeburg County has been charged with the death of 14-month-old Jaylen Harris after a year-long investigation into the toddler's mysterious death. » 7/17/14 5:45pm 7/17/14 5:45pm

A very frightened man in Seattle burned down the house he was renting when he tried to kill a spider with a makeshift blowtorch. I can't say that this is the best way to do things, but I also can't disagree with his stance.* » 7/16/14 9:30pm 7/16/14 9:30pm

Some complete and total jerkface is sneaking around a cemetery in New York dressed as a super creepy clown is hiding in Brooklyn's historic Green-Wood Cemetery, trying to "surprise" unsuspecting cemetery-goers. » 7/15/14 9:40am 7/15/14 9:40am

Summer has officially arrived, and with it, the usual sweltering humidity — as well as the news that your local beach may be a health hazard. » 6/26/14 1:00pm 6/26/14 1:00pm

Well this is an absolutely horrific tale of things going from awful to dear god why. Last week, several people left their dogs in the care of an Arizona animal boarding home run by Todd Hughes, expecting their dogs to be well looked after. But on Friday, these owners, many of whom were out of town, received a… » 6/23/14 9:45am 6/23/14 9:45am

Justin Ayers is dead after a neighbor accidentally shot a bullet into Ayers' home earlier this week. What's even more tragic is that Ayers and his wife were in the process of welcoming their three-day-old baby home when he was fatally shot. » 6/19/14 10:00am 6/19/14 10:00am

A toddler died in his car seat today after an Atlanta man accidentally left him in a locked vehicle for eight hours. Authorities allege that the temperature in the car could have reached up to 130 degrees. » 6/19/14 3:07am 6/19/14 3:07am

Monday night's episode of The Bachelorette was yet another lesson in how this "family" handles death: by bucking with tradition by cutting a Rose Ceremony and replacing it with an awkward Q&A with Andi, the Bachelorette who rejected a suitor who died. » 6/03/14 1:35pm 6/03/14 1:35pm

80-year-old Georgina Chervony Lloren hung out at her own wake in San Juan, Puerto Rico this Monday after passing away over the weekend from natural causes. She received mourners not from a casket, but from a rocking chair where she — dressed in her wedding dress — had been propped into a sitting position. » 5/27/14 2:20pm 5/27/14 2:20pm

A University of Alabama swimmer died Monday after saving his girlfriend during a Southern Tornado. » 4/30/14 12:20pm 4/30/14 12:20pm

Eric Hill, a contestant on ABC's upcoming season of The Bachelorette, has died after suffering critical injuries during a paragliding accident. » 4/23/14 5:30pm 4/23/14 5:30pm

Adrianne Wadewitz, an important and rare figure in the world of Wikipedia editors and a scholar of 18th-century British literature, died earlier this month from head injuries sustained during a rock climbing fall. According to Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wadewitz – who worked on the… » 4/18/14 7:15pm 4/18/14 7:15pm

Gabriel García Márquez, the author of famed, beautiful books such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died. Márquez, who was recently hospitalized for pneumonia and other health issues, was 87. » 4/17/14 4:30pm 4/17/14 4:30pm