Jeff Stone

Lawyers for Officer Gilberto Valle, dubbed "the cannibal cop" by local media, argued that the plots were pure fantasy and that he was a member of a fantasy role-playing website where people pretend to act out violent sexual fantasies.

Fans who illegally download HBO's "Game of Thrones" when season 3 begins later this month won't have the support of the cast or network executives, who hope more viewers will stream the drama online.

Harvey Munford, a Nevada state assemblyman, has proposed a bill that would make texting while walking an offense punishable by an expensive ticket.

Ex-con and dangerous sex offender Matthew Matagrano successfully impersonated a prison guard on Rikers Island for a week, raising serious questions about the facility's security.

Reports that Jay Leno may retire have surfaced as "The Tonight Show" host has lost younger viewers to Jimmy Kimmel.

Disgraced author Jonah Lehrer's publisher will pull his second book, "How We Decide," from bookshelves. What did he do this time?

Cat owners have long assumed their pets purr because of happiness, but in reality the vocalization could mean something very different.

Insomniacs and comedy fans alike will rejoice at the news that the U.S. version of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” will return to television with its original cast mostly intact.

Before a Florida sinkhole swallowed a sleeping Jeff Bush in bed late Thursday night, he might never have known he was laying on the precipice of a geologic feature that could have been decades in the making.

Great white sharks will now be protected under California’s Endangered Species Act starting on Friday. The state Fish and Game Commission approved the designation in February, forbidding the hunting, pursuing, catching, capturing or killing of the animal.

Researchers hope they've found the remains of Cleopatra's murdered sister, Princess Arsinoe IV, who was killed after the Romans helped quash an Egyptian power struggle.

Comedy fans across the Internet have been salivating over the new rumor that standup titans Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle are considering going on tour together.

Police have arrested Ammar Harris for the murder of three in Las Vegas. Harris has since posted videos of himself bragging about money and connections online.

After years of planning and at least two delays, the Copyright Alert System, aka the so-called six-strikes policy, will launch Monday, according to TorrentFreak.

Canadian police said that a skier was killed on Friday after an avalanche stranded a party in an off-limits area of the Revelstoke Mountain Resort in British Columbia.

A Saturday morning report of a gunman at large at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turned out to be false, with officials from the FBI and Secret Service announcing they had joined the investigation.

Despite more than 100 million registered consumers and accolades from across the blogosphere, concern is growing among fans of uTorrent that the file-sharing giant’s days are numbered.

Two fishermen found sisters huddled beneath a blanket after investigating a car accident in Washington state. The elder of the two girls, only 4 years old, is credited with saving her injured sister from the wreck.

Carl Henry Blue, 48, who received the death penalty in a 1994 murder case, was the first person executed in Texas this year.

The Lyubov Orlov earned the Russian Ghost Ship moniker after she went missing last month when the tug cable severed, sending the vessel into a drift across the Atlantic Ocean.

Bars across the country are offering happy-hour specials as new recipes stream in from the Internet.

Drew Peterson was sentenced to 38 years in prison on Thursday, five years after the former police officer made headlines for his third wife’s disappearance.

Ruff’s dismissal comes after he coached 1,165 games in the National Hockey League, all with the same team. He was the second-longest tenured coach in all of professional sports, behind only Greg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs.

Over two decades have passed since it helped usher in the grunge era, but Pearl Jam’s “Ten” has finally sold 10 million copies.

When the plane Italian fashion mogul Vittorio Missoni was flying in went missing off the coast of Venezuela in January, his family members doubted Missoni was killed in a plane crash. Now, more than a month after the disappearance, the possibility has been raised that Missoni and his party were the victims of a Bermuda Triangle-like mystery.

Internet users who look to torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and Kat.Ph for their music and movie needs are being forced, because of increased security measures, to hide their online activity, otherwise risk legal action from copyright holders. That's where BT Guard comes in.

A violin that sunk with the Titanic will be put up for auction on April 20 and, if its authenticated, could fetch more than the $340,000 sum paid for the blueprint of the doomed ship.

The third-season finale of "Downton Abbey" airs Sunday night on PBS. During its three seasons, the show has attracted legions of fans across economic lines.

A meteor’s flight across Russia, and word that a DA14 asteroid would narrowly avoid hitting earth Friday, has coincided with the publication of new evidence indicating the meteorite that hit earth millions of years ago wiped out the dinosaurs much faster than originally thought.