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UPDATE: The NCAA announced Thursday that this year’s March Madness tournaments – and all remaining college athletic championship events – are canceled. “This decision is based on the evolving COVID-19 public health threat, our ability to ensure the events do not contribute to spread of the pandemic, and the impracticality …

Joseph James DeAngelo — the man accused of being the Golden State Killer — has offered to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence, according to a statement from his defense lawyers in court documents, New York Times reports. DeAngelo has been charged with a series of murders and …

Opening statements aren’t slated to begin until January 22nd, but the criminal trial pitting the People of the State of New York against Harvey Weinstein has already witnessed its share of headline-grabbing moments. In just the first week of trial activities, Weinstein — facing five sex-crime charges that could land …

Don Imus, a foul-mouthed pioneer of the shock-jock radio format, died Friday at the age of 79. His family said his wife and one of his sons were by his side at the Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station, Texas, according to ABC News, but neither they …

A woman calls your phone with a siren in the background, claiming your estranged husband, the father of your children, has been hurt in a terrible accident. The only way to save him is to wire $12,000 — your entire bank account, which you’d hoped would cover the overdue mortgage …

Vape pen manufacturers are constantly coming up with new ways to try and entice potential customers, using everything from flavorful terpenes to mood-specific highs to draw people in. A couple years ago, when the erotic website Suicide Girls launched Zero, a specialty cartridge, it got a lot of attention — …

Lowell Cafe occupies a low-profile corner lot in West Hollywood, across from a synagogue, one block away from a Ralph’s grocery store. Just a few streets away, on Sunset Boulevard, there’s an In-N-Out Burger that’s usually packed with folks who have taken advantage of California‘s thriving legal weed market. But …

The title of Ronan Farrow’s upcoming #MeToo exposé, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators,is a reference to the practice of editors buying exclusive rights to a story that contains incriminating information, then burying it as a way of protecting the publication or its powerful allies. …

As recently as a few years ago, the bowl cut was primarily known as an unfashionable hairstyle popular among toddlers whose parents cut their hair, and 1990s child stars. Over the past few years, however, some far-right extremists have appropriated references to the hairstyle as a chilling symbol of racism …

The Gofire vaporizer looks like a walkie-talkie with a mouth groove on top. Hardly as sleek as other, more discreet weed vapes, it packs weight, literally: It’s over half a pound, about five inches tall, and nearly an inch thick. And at $349 (a preorder special deal) it carries a …