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ICYMI: Bounty Offered For Capture Of The Silver Lake Coyote Sniper
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- The Coyote Project is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of the Silver Lake Coyote Sniper.
- You can now rent this Snow White cottage in Los Feliz, originally built for Disney animators.
- Rose McGowan responded to a critic calling Renee Zellweger's face "vile, damaging, stupid and cruel."
- A 24-year-old TV reporter was fired for having townspeople in Mexico carry her over a puddle so her shoes wouldn't get wet—here's a photo.
- Nazi beauty pageants are a thing.
- Another awful thing that exists: this celebrity profile of Margot Robbie.
- This couple was arrested for throwing perfectly good pizza at each other.
- You're going to have to wait a while for more Game of Thrones.
- There is going to be a female Slimer in the new Ghostbusters movie.
- Whatever happened to Limp Bizkit anyway?
- And finally, a black cat gets caught giving a capybara a massage:
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