Next, he belted out crowd-pleasers by Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck. But Mr. Gregorio, 63, a witness to countless fistfights and occasional stabbings erupting from disputes over karaoke singing, did not dare choose one beloved classic: Frank Sinatra's version of "My Way."

"I used to like 'My Way,' but after all the trouble, I stopped singing it," he said. "You can get killed."

Roman Polanski raped a child. Let's just start right there, because that's the detail that tends to get neglected when we start discussing whether it was fair for the bail-jumping director to be arrested at age 76, after 32 years in "exile" (which in this case means owning multiple homes in Europe, continuing to work as a director, marrying and fathering two children, even winning an Oscar, but never -- poor baby -- being able to return to the U.S.).

LAS VEGAS — There’s no honor among thieves, nor apparently among hackers.

A malicious ATM kiosk was positioned in the conference center of the Riviera Hotel Casino capturing data from an unknown number of hackers attending the DefCon hacker conference before someone noticed something suspicious about the kiosk.

(07-07) 20:11 PDT OAKLAND -- Convicted killer Hans Reiser led police Monday to what he said was the body of his wife in the Oakland hills just two days before he was to be sentenced for first-degree murder, authorities said.

"Readnour operated the Monfort Heights Family Clinic in Cincinnati, where police said he performed medical procedures including immunizations, mammograms and colonoscopies."

An interesting story involving a miraculous voice, a time-travel-enabled clock, and Quantum-Leap-style crime solving? Sign me up for more original S-E IPs, please.

In which a 71-year-old man attacks an 80-year-old man with a pricegun at Wal-Mart.

In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a "whites only" shade tree.

A judge sentencing a Beatles-loving beer thief quoted 42 of the band’s song titles in his verdict.

A 13-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother has been exposed as one of Britain's biggest internet conmen. The boy earned more than $607,000 by posing as the boss of several multinational companies selling various goods.

"A bunch of former high-school football players from Murrieta, California, are in serious trouble after being booked on a variety of bizarre charges for their involvement with a 'fight club'..." Evidently they missed the point

"A second US soldier's plea of guilty to the gang rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her and her family has been accepted by a judge."

"Once a vital component in a national economy, this sprawling urban environment is now a vast collection of blighted buildings, an immense petri dish of both ancient and new diseases..."

Well, yeah, but here's a fact-by-fact breakdown. Media reaction: none.

A ridiculous story of why two Sonic employees were found naked in a restroom... that may be true.