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- One very generous donor has just funded every California school wish list registered with DonorsChoose.org.
- An 84-year-old man was found dead inside his ransacked Monterey Hills home; authorities are calling it a homicide.
- Actor Michael Douglas has begun to speak out about his treatment for stage-four throat cancer.
- To the north of us...the bizarre story of a 49-year-old doctor who died while lodged inside her boyfriend's chimney.
- NeighborGoods founder, L.A.'s Micki Krimmel, tells the story of her community-oriented stuff-sharing site on HuffPo.
- How big do you like your cup of froyo? Pinkberry hopes you like it reallllly big. (Or that you're fond of sharing!)
- Orange? Purple? Silver? Celebrate your inability to find rhyming words for those three colors as part of No Rhyme (No Reason) Day today.