While we're away, if you have a tip about a story or something we should look into, post or get a chuckle from, please direct it here.
Here are some of the week's lowlights (and some highlights, too).
- Serena Williams had a tearful comeback.
- NBA baller Ron Artest is changing his name to "Metta World Peace".
- Queen Latifah and her girlfriend are fighting and are thisclose to breaking off their 8-year relationship.
- Missy Elliott has Graves' disease.
- Beyoncé's forthcoming album is projected to flop and the suits at her record label are concerned and considering taking drastic measures.
- OJ Simpson confessed to killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson to Oprah.
- Wanted by the Feds, hip-hop mogul James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond was finally arrested for cocaine trafficking.
- Speaking of cocaine trafficking, reggae artist Buju Banton was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
- There was a steady stream of bad parenting. This woman cooked her baby in a microwave; This eight months pregnant woman was busted for drunken driving; this donkey smoked weed with her child in the car -- while driving to a meeting at the Department of Family Services....
- ....Then there was this woman, who stole several DVDs from Walmart, ran across six lanes of traffic, punched a security guard twice, ran to the roof a 4-story building, then jumped into a lake -- all this while clutching her baby in her arms.
- A grandmother drowned her granddaughter in a pond.
- A man robbed a bank of $1 in order to get free medical care in jail.
- Someone stole a man's credit card number then sent him a single rose and a "thank-you" note.
- Apparently, dishwashers are harboring "killer" bugs so beware.
- Doctors warned crackheads about flesh-eating cocaine -- with some difficult to unsee video.
- A 106-year-old woman, abandoned by her caregiver, was found emaciated and living in filth.
- A 7-year-old boy stole a car and drove 20 miles hoping to see his dad.
- A man sued his ex-girlfriend for $11 million for taking his dog.
- A woman was arrested for videotaping police officers from your front yard as they made a traffic stop.
- A woman died at her own funeral.
- Man broke into a neighbor's home, smashed statues then took a shower. Why? God told him to.
- A woman fend off a sexual attack by biting off the would-be attacker's tongue.
- Lady Gaga was sued for stealing money intended for charity.
- In not-shocking-news: The Waffle House is infested with cockroaches.
- New York became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriages.
- These are the videos that had us dying all week. These. These men and/on a pole; these, which show why you shouldn't fly Delta (or Southwest) Airlines; we learned how to react to an ugly baby; then, this lady who thinks she's an actual car.