Within hours of its launch, a web app called Social Roulette, which encouraged users to gamble away their social media lives, was squashed dead by Facebook.

A play on the name of life-or-death activity Russian roulette, Social Roulette put the user's Facebook account on the...

A police report brought to light more disturbing details of the kidnapping of three Ohio women imprisoned in a squalid house for about decade.

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight vanished from the area within two years of each other, and were recovered Monday from a...

Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man who has been hailed as a hero for his role in helping to free three women from the house where police say they were held, has a criminal record that includes a history of domestic violence, the Smoking Gun reports.

As praise for...

Authorities in Cleveland have issued a statement in response to criticism of the 911 dispatcher who answered kidnapping victim Amanda Berry's panicked phone call earlier this week.

In a statement released on the Cleveland police department's Facebook page, Martin L. Flask, director of public safety, noted that...

Charles Ramsey, the neighbor who helped to free three women from the Cleveland-area home where police said they were held for more than a decade, told CNN's Anderson Cooper that any reward money tied to the case should go to the victims.

The FBI's missing person...

The daughter of Ariel Castro, a suspect in the abduction of three women about a decade ago, is reportedly serving 25 years in prison for slashing the throat of her baby.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has tied the case currently unfolding in Cleveland to an Indiana...

In a video that now seems chilling, Arlene Castro, the daughter of Ohio kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro, speaks about being the last person to see her friend, kidnapping victim Gina DeJesus, before the girl vanished. DeJesus is one of three young women who disappeared in the...

In another strange layer to the case of three missing women found being held captive in a house in Cleveland around 10 years after they disappeared, a son of one of the kidnapping suspects reportedly wrote an article for a local paper about one of the victims, Gina...

At 1:38 p.m. on April 15, the Boston Police Department's Twitter account sent a picture of the "1 Mile to Go" sign from the Boston Marathon to some 50,000 followers. Two hours and one minute later, this message went out:

Boston Police confirming explosion at marathon finish...

While some religious leaders might shy away from establishing a tradition of helping women ascend to high-ranking positions, the Dalai Lama voices a more progressive view: His Holiness says he would be pleased if a woman were to succeed him.

Cathy Newman, a presenter with the United Kingdom's Channel 4...

Would a modern-day Jesus be the kind of guy who might enjoy wearing thick-rimmed glasses without the lenses and listening to great bands long before you or anyone else thought they were cool?

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn -- of course -- is suggesting that Christ...

Speculation on social media last week over who was responsible for the bombing at the Boston Marathon produced its own set of innocent victims: the falsely accused.

Reddit -- which was fiercely criticized for its "Findthebostonbombers" thread that called out specific people standing near the...

Bloomberg reported on Friday that Jeff Bauman -- the man who tragically lost both his legs in the Boston Marathon attack and is the subject of a striking photograph from the scene -- may have helped to identify one of the suspects in the bombing.

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Photographs from the aftermath of the Boston Marathon attack circulated around the web so quickly that, in some cases this week, victims' family members first learned about their injured loved ones through social media. For 25-year-old Richard Whalley, finding his father's image online ended up being the key...

Suicide isn't generally a subject broached by businesses looking to push their products. And yet, somehow, an auto advertising spot has surfaced featuring a man's failed attempt to end his life.

The video, posted to YouTube earlier this week, features Hyundai's iX35, a new low-emissions model.

It's unlikely that the people responsible for the Boston Marathon attack will be apprehended through social media -- the security footage from a Lord & Taylor department store appears to be the focus at this point -- but that didn't stop users on Reddit and members of 4Chan...

Jonathan Hill had been running a little over four hours when he hit mile 25.5 of the Boston Marathon. Suddenly, race officials told him to stop because a set of explosions near the finish line.

Thoughts of muscle cramps and fatigue quickly turned into panic. His wife,...

Coordinated flash mobs may have lost a bit of their luster after they became the go-to wedding proposal of 2011, but this video of an impromptu group sing-along that broke out among people returning from the Grand National horse race in Liverpool sure makes us want...

Is there a new trend sweeping the all-natural birthing community?

It's called a "lotus birth," and it involves leaving the umbilical cord attached to your baby -- rather than separating it at birth -- and letting it fall off naturally, on its own schedule, if you will....

Do you know who Kermit Gosnell is?

Some journalists and conservative lawmakers are arguing that you probably don't, with claims that the media has failed to adequately cover the trial of the Philadelphia doctor who is accused of causing the deaths of seven live babies...