What did you eat today?

That sound you hear? The one that sounds like glass breaking softly into a thousand pieces? That's this kid's innocence being crushed into the fine dust that will settle on him as unending disappointment. Because today this boy became a man. Today, he's 300% done with life. This kid? He. Can't. Even.

The terrorist attacks of 13 years ago today ground the lives of millions to a shocked halt, and the first episode of The Daily Show to air after the attacks today serves as a reminder of just how emotionally raw everything still felt in the aftermath.

A woman died at Burning Man on Thursday after falling under a bus transporting event participants.

Saturday should have been a great day for Brad Parker. He and his girlfriend had just climbed Yosemite's Cathedral Peak and when they reached the top, Parker asked Jainee Dial to marry him. She said yes. Only hours later, Parker was dead, falling 300 feet when he lost his balance.

A sad update on the story of Erin Corwin, the pregnant California woman who's been missing since June 28: Corwin's body has been found in the bottom of a mine shaft near Twentynine Palms. Former Marine Christopher Brandon Lee, with whom Corwin was reportedly having an affair, has been arrested for her murder.

On June 20, Benny Longoria, a forty-year-old gay man living with HIV, was found dead in his apartment, lying naked in a pool of his own blood. A friend made the grisly discovery and told the Tulsa Police, but unbelievably, they failed to notify Longoria's family for over a month. It would be the beginning in a series…

A Texas man allegedly kicked down the door of his former in-laws' house, tied up the couple and their five children, and shot all of them in the head. The couple's 15-year-old daughter played dead until her ex-uncle left, then alerted police that he was on his way to murder her grandparents. Ron Haskell, 33, was…

On April 16th, 19-year-old University of Wisconsin-River Falls student Alyssa Funke committed suicide. In the weeks prior, she'd suffered an avalanche of threats and bullying from former high school classmates. But police are eager to blame pornography — and not online harassment — for her suicide.

I've never been obsessed with the Olympics to the point that I'd buy officially licensed Olympic gear; however, I have been an enthusiastic viewer of the Olympics to the point that sometimes I have nightmares that are narrated by Elfi Schlegel. But in the build up to these Sochi Winter Games, now less than 2 weeks…

Saddest: Firefighters say an 8-year-old boy who saved 6 people from an early morning fire in Penfield, New York lost his life while trying to save a 7th person — his disabled uncle.

In completely awful news, police have charged two people with the deaths of two young children, a one-year-old and a two-year-old, in Maryland on Saturday, the result of what authorities believe was an exorcism.

Five suspects have been arrested in the murders of former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear, 29, and her ex-husband Thomas Henry Berry, 39. The pair were shot and killed in front of their 5-year-old daughter during an attempted robbery.

This is completely awful. Monica Spear, 29, former Miss Venezuela and current telenovela star, was shot and killed while vacationing in her home country. Spear's boyfriend was also killed. Venezuela has been called the most dangerous country in South America, due to government and police corruption, arms…

News of yet another aviation disaster (this one in the all-but-impenetrable Alaska wilderness) has an extra heart-wrenching twist: a mother who survived a plane crash in remote southwest Alaska was forced to leave her fatally injured infant son to lead rescuers slowed by fog to the crash site.

Sick and tired of essentially living inside a giant cloud of pepper spray, residents of Irwindale, CA petitioned to have the Huy Fong Foods factory (makers of Sriracha) shut down until they can regulate their fumes. Yesterday, city officials filed suit. A judge will decide on Thursday whether or not to grant the order.