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A group of merry pranksters buried a treasure chest in Venice Beach, Calif., only to dig it up and discover it the next day in front of a gaggle of stunned beachgoers. And it's all on video.

California death row inmate James Lee Crummel hanged himself from a locker in his cell in San Quentin State Prison over the weekend.

Marina Keegan was a 22-year-old aspiring writer who had everything going for her. A recent Yale graduate, Keegan was about to start her first job -- at the New Yorker -- and had already published essays in The New York Times. But Keegan's plans came to a screeching halt when the Massachusetts resident died in a car crash on May 26 as she and her boyfriend were on their way to a vacation house on Cape Cod.

Ronald Poppo has been identified as the unfortunate victim left without much of a face after being brutally attacked and cannibalized in Miami on Saturday by Rudy Eugene, the man who has been dubbed the Miami zombie in the wake of the shocking incident.

The Miami cannibal attack became a national obsession after homeless man Rudy Eugene was shot and killed by police on Saturday, but some conspirators claim it is just the latest sign that a zombie apocalypse is sweeping across the nation.

Angel Vega Roman, a 28-year-old Florida man, was arrested Sunday and charged with cruelty to animals after allegedly biting the lips off of a kitten and strangling another feline.

Todd Bridges, the television actor famous for his portrayal of Willis Jackson in Diff'rent Strokes, filed for separation from his wife, Dori, after 14 years of marriage.

Salty Watermelon Pepsi is the latest exotic flavor to be rolled out by Pepsi Japan. It's not as weird as you might think, given Japanese culinary customs.

The Internet has been abuzz with the shocking news out of Miami, after a homeless man named Rudy Eugene was discovered in a zombie-like state as he chomped on another man's face and neck before being shot and killed by police. Three never-before-seen photos of the crime scene, including pictures of the victim and the assailant after the attack, are at the bottom of the page.

Pierce Crowley, a 15-year-old boy from Westchester County, N.Y., has been missing since Friday and family and friends are desperately trying to find the teenager. However, in the midst of this sorrow is exploitation. A family friend has warned volunteers to beware of online fundraising scams.

The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) arrested two men Monday evening in connection with an alleged terror plot, who have suspected links to the radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia.

A suspected armed robber plummeted 150 feet from a crane to his death early Tuesday ending a 14-hour standoff on Southern Methodist University's Dallas campus.

Rescue teams will construct makeshift shelters and tents for displaced people and those who are too afraid to return home. However, the region's emergency resources are reportedly low because of the last disaster.

A 15-year-old teenager from Westchester County, New York named Pierce Crowley has been missing since Friday and his parents are desperately searching for him.

While most kids her age will be playing video games or watching Nickelodeon, 6-year-old Lori Anne Madison will be competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee with contenders twice her age.

A Miami man was shot and killed on Saturday after he was caught eating the face of another man. Citing police sources, the Boston Herald is reporting that a roadside-assistance truck driver saw a naked man eating another man's face before he tried to get him to back off via an announcement from his loudspeaker. An additional witness also saw the incident and flagged down a police officer.

If one lucky individual can afford to pay the price, then he or she can buy the original resting place of Elvis Presley, aka the King of Rock and Roll.

Manhattanhenge -- that magical, periodic confluence of golden sunlight and New York steel -- is approaching. Read on to learn how to see this modern miracle for yourself on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Golden Gate Bridge -- across the Golden Gate Strait between San Francisco and Marin County -- was a larger-than-life engineering project undertaken against dangerous odds, and it opened 75 years ago on Sunday against vehement protest, at the cost of 11 lives.

The controversial story of Diane Tran, a jailed honors student in Montgomery County, Texas, has sparked widespread outrage on the Internet.

The Harvard Alumni Association apologized for an entry in the 50th anniversary report for the class of 1962 in which Ted Kaczynski, the man known as the Unabomber who is serving multiple life sentences, updated his awards and current job title.

A picture says 1000 words, but porn stars talk even more. Tasha Reign and Brooklyn Lee, the two starlets who posed for a photo with Bill Clinton at a gala fundraiser in Monaco on Wednesday, said the former president wanted to meet them both, despite the secret service's attempt to block their meeting. Reign even went as far as calling Bubba super hot, adding she feels sympathetic for how quickly the photo went viral.

The story had to wait three decades to be finally told, but now a child-disappearance case that gripped America way back when Jimmy Carter was president may have found a solution -- and, sadly, the name of a murderer. Pedro Hernandez, who was 19 in 1979, allegedly killed 6-year-old Etan Patz in a grocery store's basement in Manhattan, bagged the body and trashed it.

Pedro Hernandez, the former SoHo bodega stock boy who confessed to the murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz 33 years after the boy disappeared, was taken to Bellevue Hospital and placed on suicide watch. Authorities promptly put him the hospital after he told police he no longer takes his psychiatric medication.

Campaigns on Twitter and Facebook have sprouted up to save the Times-Picayune, New Orleans' oldest paper, from going to printing only three days a week following an announcement from the paper's parent company yesterday to put the plan into action in the fall.

Federal authorities are currently investigating how a door from a private jet landed on a South Florida golf course on Thursday.

For more than three decades law enforcement officials and the nation wondered what happened to Etan Patz, the 6-year-old who disappeared in his SoHo neighborhood while on his way to the school bus stop on May 25, 1979.

A Facebook friend request set the wheels in motion for Brian Banks to be cleared of rape 10 years after he was accused by former high school classmate Wanetta Gibson and had already spent five years in prison.

Hustler's publisher, Larry Flynt, offered a second response in regard to a lewd photo of conservative commentator S.E. Cupp published in his raunchy men's magazine. But Flynt's defense of that's satire did not sit well with the ladies of The View, who took offense to the misogynistic and graphic digitally-altered photo.