This week Florida prison authorities accidentally released and paid for bus tickets for two convicted murderers who were supposed to be serving life sentences without possibility of parole.
Republican New York mayoral nominee Joe Lhota has brought a new, urgent issue to the fore in the race to be the next chief executive of the city: Where do the candidates stand on the Nicaraguan civil war of the 1980s?
Welcome to Thatz Not Okay, a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Please send your questions to caity.weaver@gawker.com with the subject "Thatz Not Okay."
A convicted murderer with the best bros in the world is back behind bars after making a daring escape from a high-security Russian prison earlier today.
It's not a good idea, when you're on trial, to attack the prosecutor in the courtroom. But Emanuel D. "E Man" Mitchell had already been convicted of murder, so he probably figured he had nothing to lose.
A California lady has informed police that her dad was not Father of the Year material, because when she was young he took her along to his job, which was being the Zodiac Killer.
Choire · 12/24/07 01:00PM
Huge Grinch and chair of Boston University's religion department goes out on the long branch of sociocultural relativism and declares that every day is a holiday that is nearly as great as Christmas! CRUCIFY HIM. [WaPo]
Joshua Stein · 11/02/07 01:20PM
Chinese rights to the O.J. Simpson sort-of confession weird-thing "If I Did It" have been sold. It's about time China found out the truth about America! The poor Goldman family was presumably not dismayed that rights went for less than $50K. [Publisher's Marketplace]