A homeless man from the West Village just learned that his dog, taken away by the NYPD earlier this month, was euthanized at an ASPCA animal hospital without his permission. DNAInfo New York, which had been looking into the dog's fate, broke the news to his owner yesterday.

Months before Robin Williams took his own life after struggling with severe depression and the early stages of Parkinson's Disease, the actor made this heartbreaking personal video for a New Zealand woman with terminal cancer.

Nibbles, a beloved beagle mix, passed away in July at age 14. His family says he was killed by chewing on pieces of razor blades concealed inside Canadian bacon. Next-door neighbor Robert Hamme, 60, later confessed to booby-trapping the meat and throwing it over a fence into Nibbles' yard.

Update: DC Entertainment has reversed its earlier decision, and will now allow Superman's shield to appear on a memorial statue of murdered 5-year-old Jeffrey Baldwin, the Toronto Star reports. The original story is below.

Five-year-old Brayden Denton loved comic book heroes from the time he was 3, and watched the Spider-Man movies "over and over." After he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer a year ago, he always had a superhero with him at treatments. And at his funeral this week, superheroes served as his pallbearers.

Lee Chingyu, an anchor for Taiwan's Next TV News, choked back tears as she discovered live on air that a friend and colleague at another network had been found dead in an apparent suicide.

A University of Central Arkansas senior spent his final moments taking shelter in a bathroom, sending a goodbye text to his mother as a tornado bore down on his home last week.

This could very well be little Laney Brown's very last Christmas.

This may very well be the first Craigslist Missed Connection that not only seeks a happy ending — it both deserves and demands one.

The Simpsons bookended last night's new episode with two touching tributes to late voice actress Marcia Wallace, better known to fans as Mrs. Edna Krabappel, who passed away on October 26th at the age of 70.

Davion Navar Henry Only is a teenager with a troubled past who wants nothing more than to be part of a family. Any family.

In a series of handwritten notes inscribed on Marriott Residence Inn stationary with the slogan "ideas worth saving," Donald Glover, better known these days as Childish Gambino, opened up wide about a host of personal torments and tribulations, from his past struggles to his future fears.

Warning: This post contains a graphic photo of a woman giving birth which some may find disturbing.

Last Friday night, a bruised and battered dog suddenly showed up on the front porch of an unassuming house in north Nashville.

Back in early July, a helmet-cam video of a Fresno firefighter rescuing an unconscious kitten trapped inside a smoke-filled home briefly caught the Internet's attention.

The Force family will forever remember their little dachshund Bradley as being larger than life.

In the immortal words of Louis C.K., bringing home a puppy is a "countdown to sorrow."

The world's most famous feline mayor remains in critical condition today after being mauled by a dog while strolling through his hometown of Talkeetna, Alaska.

An elderly widow from San Juan Capistrano who is hoping her pet parrot comes back to her says the lost bird was a living link to her late husband because it still spoke using the deceased man's voice.

"I wouldn’t take it back ever," Jesse Cottle says, recalling that fateful day in 2009 when he stepped on an IED and blew off both his legs.