A high school senior from Georgia won't graduate after being suspended for a year and will have a tough time paying for college after being stripped of his scholarship — all for hugging a teacher.

A west Phoenix woman was fatally injured while hugging her boyfriend when the gun in his pants accidentally discharged.

Doug Mills of the New York Times tweeted this photo of Barack Obama getting lifted in the air by Big Apple Pizza owner (and bear hug enthusiast) Scott Van Duzer.

Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, who have been hard at work to repair their strained relationship, shared a tender embrace tonight after Clinton's blockbuster 49 minute, 10 second speech at the DNC.

To the Windy City, where a man's painful dilemma may redeem itself by serving as a teaching experience for us all. The Chicago Tribune reports the harrowing nightmare of friendship gone awry: "A 24-year-old man is hospitalized after being stabbed outside of a Wrigleyville dance bar early this morning by a man who seemingly was about to give the victim a hug."

CNBC guy Larry Kudlow simply did not care for the bear-hug Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel exchanged on Friday. It showed weakness, Kudlow writes, in a stupid column. "Our friends and enemies were all watching." Are the terrorists unstoppable now?

In the true spirit of commerce and bottled water, this guy has figured out that people are more than willing to pay money for what they can get for free.

Today on her show, Ellen brought attention to the Hug-e-gram, a bizarre plush stick with Mickey-type hands on either end that provides its wearer with disembodied hugs.

BREAKING: "President Barack Obama says the only Christmas presents he needs from his daughters are hugs."

Is the Times getting cute with us? Months after warning us of the teen hug epidemic they are now asking if teen hugs spread swine flu.

In the good old days of the culture wars, your teenagers, after years of being raped by Satanist daycare workers, were all organizing "Rainbow Parties" and smoking weed three times more powerful than the stuff you smoked all the time in high school. Now they are just hugging?

Unlike certain grandfatherly former presidents, Matt Drudge hasn't yet forgotten the dark lessons of our shared childrens' book history. It starts with a hug, Jimmy—then Hamas will want a cookie. Soon you've handed over Israel to extremists, and then they'll just be thirsty for milk. American milk. [Drudge]