Don Deane

Although details are sketchy at the moment, several news outlets are reporting that a gunman has shot multiple people near the Empire State Building in Manhattan this morning.

It’s perfectly normal to mark the holidays with a decoration or two. But the Rieken family in Texas takes their celebration of the season to the extreme by cramming over 200 trees into their home. Clark Griswold of ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’ fame would be proud!

Most of us wouldn’t be caught dead in a garish Christmas sweater. But one woman in Vermont specializes in making ugly Christmas pullovers. As far as she’s concerned, the uglier the better.

In a show of technological savvy, Pope Benedict XVI turned on a massive Christmas light display in the Italian town of Gubbio by using a Sony Android tablet. It’s a miracle…of technology!

On Monday, Sgt. Jamee Gains, an Oklahoma National Guard soldier returning from Afghanistan, gave her family the best early Christmas present possible: herself.

Greg Benson and Ryan Smith had such a fine time pranking Target employees that they decided to do it again. This time, the jokesters pestered retail workers at Wal-Mart with ridiculous shopping lists.

In this vintage clip from 1979, some kid — some little nudnik — derails the lighting of the first Hanukkah candle on live TV by seriously misbehaving.

Last week, we brought you a video of eight-year-old Sophia Grace Brownlee and her five-year-old cousin Rosie performing a spot-on rendition of Nicki Minaj‘s ‘Super Bass.’

Can’t wait until September 19th to see whether Charlie Sheen‘s winning streak continues at his Comedy Central roast? Then you’re in luck! The Hollywood Reporter recently wrote up highlights from the event, which took place on Saturday night.

Anderson Cooper slammed Chris Brown for his role in an upcoming romantic comedy on ‘Anderson Cooper 360,’ citing Brown’s domestic abuse case with former girlfriend Rihanna and a string of other wrongdoings in the singer’s past.