A police department got a lucky break earlier this week when an accused criminal accidentally shared the department's Facebook post about his status as a fugitive. Police arrested the man less than an hour later.

Police Chief David O. Brown of Dallas showed off his crazy tech skills recently by publicly disciplining employees on Twitter, with more detailed accounts of their indiscretions on a complementary Facebook page. We are truly living the future.

A teen boy upset with a female classmate for unfriending him on Facebook reportedly threw a pot of boiling water in the girl's face after holding both her and her mother hostage inside their own home.

Monday night, Australian police had to rescue a tourist after she accidentally walked off a pier because she was too busy checking Facebook on her phone.

An East St. Louis woman who was found stabbed to death in her apartment Saturday night had posted a Facebook status update prior to her murder warning her friends that she might die.

The mugging may have taken place over three decades ago, but it's been weighing on Michael Goodman's conscience ever since.

You can change your profile photo to whatever you want, but all that Facebook sees are sweet, sweet dollar signs — and they want you to know that.

As a respite from the horrible news out of the Philippines: Here's an app called "What Would I Say?" that takes your old Facebook statuses and writes your next one for you. What's your best result?

It's an internet law that any new social media technology will instantly be used to buy and sell drugs. I've come across allegations of drug trades on Facebook, Topix, Craigslist, and, of course various Dark Net forums like Silk Road. Now Instagram is in the spotlight for apparently being a hotbed of artfully-filtered drug trafficking.

An Idaho high school girls basketball coach says she was fired for posting a vacation photo on her personal Facebook page showing her fiancé grabbing her right breast.

A trucker who crashed into three police cars and two trucks, killing an Arizona public safety officer, was on Facebook at the time of the crash, and had used his phone to watch YouTube and look up female escort web pages, porn sites and social networks while driving on other occasions.

Columbia may be both the largest city in South Carolina and its capital, but that doesn't mean the city's interim police chief has anything better to do than threaten to hunt down and arrest citizens who post complaints on his department's Facebook page.

As the head of Facebook, with over one billion active users, Mark Zuckerberg probably has more influence on information technology than any one person alive. Now a couple of information scholars have archived his every public utterance into a massive archive they're calling the Zuckerberg Files.

A teenager who took her own life after her parents banned her from accessing her own Facebook page wrote a suicide note saying she couldn't live without the social networking site.

Britney Spears just put out a call for your "Get to Work (Bitch)" stories on Facebook. Her team would specifically like to hear about your time volunteering at the local soup kitchen, which they've helpfully illustrated with a still from the "Work Bitch" video:

The fox is a clever beast, famously outsmarting human and animal rivals in ancient fables, recent movies and a current Top 10 song. Humanity's relationship with the fox has long been balanced between bemused tolerance and "let's shoot them for fun and raise them in cages, for fur." But there are abundant signs that the foxes have had quite enough of people, and are making coordinated global moves to take over civilization.

Facebook is building a town for its army of engineers—one with a "Quad," a "recreation center" and a six-foot surrounding wall.

What you're looking at here is the largest analysis of the words we use on Facebook ever undertaken. Look at the words. They are you. If you're a man, you care about "fucking metal fuck girlfriend league wishes." Ladies, you're partial to "shopping excited love cute dress yayyyy." Blame yourself.

After Sonya Gore caught her husband Ivan Lewis cheating, she did what any jilted woman would do: She forced her spouse to put up a Facebook photo of himself holding a sign that reads "I cheated on my wife!!! (and she was ugly!!!)"

Usually, you only see the term "private re-homing" on message boards where pet owners seek new caretakers for unwanted animals. But, Reuters reports, there's a far more sinister context for the phrase—on another, scarily similar network of online bulletin boards where desperate parents advertise and abandon children they regret adopting from overseas.