Zombie foreclosures.
This bizarre term refers to a bizarre, little-known but very real horror of the U.S. housing bust that is crippling homeowners coast to coast, six years in.
Thousands are finding themselves legally liable for houses they didn't know they still owned after banks decided it wasn't worth their while to complete foreclosures.
With impunity, banks walk away from foreclosures much the way some homeowners walked away from their mortgages when the housing market first crashed.
St. Louis Police confirmed on Tuesday night that a body found inside the trunk of a white, Mitsubishi Eclipse was that of the missing Ebony Jackson.
Police said that there was some trauma to the body.
Jackson’s baby was found safe and sound early Friday morning inside a Breckenridge Hills apartment complex. She had not been heard from since last Thursday.
Travelers passing through Australia's Melbourne Airport Monday may have witnessed a hilariously cute and chaotic scene. A kangaroo was somehow on the loose!
Around 7 a.m., a 3-year-old eastern gray kangaroo was spotted in the parking garage, hopping around for almost two hours and giving security the slip:
Wildlife officer Manfred Zabinskas was called to catch the adorable young marsupial, who was tranquilized in order to be transported back to safety.
Zabinskas noted he had been away from his natural habitat for some time, and that the romp through the parking garage had done some damage to his feet.
A professor is causing befuddlement and outrage with recent claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., did not occur.
The Daily Mail reported that James Tracy, a tenured history professor at Florida Atlantic University, wrote this in a lengthy post on his personal blog.
Tracy explores what he says is the possibility that the Newtown shooting may not have happened the way that it is widely believed, if it happened at all.
The 47-year-old professor bases his claims largely on the flurry of conflicting media reports that were made as news of the shooting was released.
Suspended for a Facebook post? Believe it, as an eighth-grade student in Vietnam learned the hard way after posting a parody of a speech by Ho Chi Minh.
In the same week that an activist was jailed for insulting Kuwait’s leader on Twitter, Nguyen Thanh Vy, 14, was suspended from school in Hanoi for a Facebook post.
School principal Nguyen Tan Si said the parody of the revolutionary leader's speech, in December, “had criticized the first term exam and insulted the teachers.”
Rodney Alcala, a.k.a. the Dating Game Killer, was sentenced Monday in NY to 25 years to life in prison for the murder of two women in the 1970s.
Already convicted in the 1970s murders of four women and a 12-year-old girl in Southern California, Alcala must now serve even more prison time.
Not that it will matter, as he'll never see the light of day.
In fact, Alcala said he wanted to plead guilty to the two New York murder counts so he could get back to California, where he was sentenced to death.
Chicago Police are investigating the death of a lottery winner, Urooj Khan, 46, who was killed, reportedly by poison, just after he got his winnings.
Khan won a $1,000,000 scratch-off ticket last June after he paid $60 to buy two tickets at a 7-11 in the Windy City's Rogers Park neighborhood.
A check for his prize money of almost $425,000 was issued July 19.
He never got to see the check. Within 48 hours, he was dead.
A fire broke out on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet in Boston's Logan Airport after a non-stop flight from Tokyo, prompting safety concerns about the new plane.
No one was on board at the time.
The incident occurred Monday when an electrical fire broke out on board the Japan Airlines jet 30 minutes after 173 passengers and 11 crew members exited.
The Massachusetts Port Authority's fire chief, Bob Donahue, said the fire began in a battery pack for the auxiliary power unit, which runs its electrical systems.
A teenager's photo of what looks like a brain (or maybe a kidney) within his KFC meal has gone viral and resulted in an apology from the fast food chain.
Ibrahim Langoo, 19, posted the pic on Facebook account last month after dining at a KFC in Colchester, England ... for the last time, we imagine.
"I just wanted to get out of KFC as quickly as I could," he told the Sun. "I still feel sick and disgusted by it now. I threw it down onto my tray immediately."
"It looked like a brain. I suddenly felt grim and really sick."
KFC apologized, but the damage was done. If you thought your homemade roasted chicken recipe was boring, at least it's probably brain-free. Perspective.
The photo is so straight up FOWL (pun intended) that we couldn't even bear to put it on our homepage ... follow the jump if you have the stomach for it:
A young boy who killed his purportedly abusive neo-Nazi dad is blaming it on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, according to the Los Angeles Times.
He saw an episode in which a boy killed his abusive father and didn't get in any trouble; as such, he thought that he could off his dad and get away with it.
The boy was only 10 when he killed his father and is being tried as a juvenile.
The third teaser for Anchorman 2 has landed. All of the stars from Anchorman are back including Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner.
Star Trek Into Darkness takes what J.J. Abrams started in 2009 and sends the franchise into hyperdrive. Our Star Trek Into Darkness review sets aside the is Benedict Cumberbatch Khan debate to state this film exceeds the original.
The first clip from Despicable Me 2 has dropped. Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig star in the animated sequel.
Dexter Season 8 kicks off on June 30. Watch an extended trailer for the Showtime thriller now.
On tonight's Nikita season finale, will Nikita go through with killing the President to save Michael?
That was quite The Vampire Diaries Season 4 finale, huh? Come along now and discuss it with our Round Table!
This warm fava bean salad with waluts and pear is a harbinger of spring. Enjoy its subtle, albeit distinct, pork flavor today!
This coconut biscotti is a healthy treat that includes a fair share of almonds. It's soft and it's tasty - and it's healthy.
This Mediterranean Quinoa salad is a flavorful and unique appetizer or snack item. It's also gluten free! So enjoy today!
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