The grieving family of Julion Evans brought him to a Tampa church to get a proper funeral. A church pastor agreed to speak at the service, but he ended up reneging upon learning that Evans was a gay man. And they learned this a day before the funeral was supposed to take place. Pastor T.W. Jenkins reportedly agreed to the …

The Federal Communications Commission just made a motion that requires mobile service providers and third-party apps (like iMessage and Google Hangouts) to make texting 911 available by the end of 2014. What could possibly go wrong? Of course, the text-to-911 option is a response to the prevalence of texting today and would definitely be of help for those, who are …

In the pantheon of things human beings do to alter their state of mind, enjoying a hash brownie honestly ranks somewhere around “standing up too quickly” in terms of the overall danger to society at large. But because everything is bigger in Texas–including ridiculous jail sentences for what amounts to a petty offense out in the civilized world–it could conceivably …

It has been known as the nation’s porn capital for years, but if recent film-permit records are to be believed, fewer than three adult movies a month are being made in Los Angeles County this year. So where are those hundreds of films available for instant download on the Internet coming from? Many are still coming from right here, say …

A KFC customer in North Platte, Nebraska recently felt so guilty over “stealing” a piece of chicken that she felt compelled to apologize and send in $2 to pay for it. You’re probably wondering why I keep putting stealing in quotation marks. That’s the funny thing here: the woman appears to have suffered an attack of conscience for a crime …

Next time you purchase white button mushrooms at the grocery store, just remember, they may be cute and bite-size but they have a relative out west that occupies some 2,384 acres (965 hectares) of soil in Oregon’s Blue Mountains. Put another way, this humongous fungus would encompass 1,665 football fields, or nearly four square miles (10 square kilometers) of turf. …

<div class=”video-container”></div> After two years of recriminations and investigations, the Republican-led House intelligence committee is reportedly set to release the results of a Benghazi investigation that found no wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the lead-up and response to the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. Rep. Mike Thompson, a California Democrat who sits on the panel, …