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.

Fans won’t have to wait until the Super Bowl for a new glimpse at “The Hunger Games.’ Yahoo Movies released a second trailer for the highly anticipated film today and we’ve got it for you here.

New York City is one of the few places where someone can break into spontaneous song on the subway and no one bats an eye. That’s exactly what happens here, as musician Jessica Latshaw plays a song on the ukulele while a man (who she’s never met before) accompanies on bongos.

A California teenager got hopelessly stuck in his family’s chimney for more than 90 minutes. But, unlike Santa, he wasn’t trying to leave presents under the tree.

Clearly, adorable wire-haired dachshund Lola has something on her mind. So, while her owner films, Lola makes a noise that sounds startlingly similar to the words, “Oh, no!” Has Lola met “No No No” cat?

A husband and wife couple in the U.K. have found a unique way to make a buck off Christmas — by renting live reindeer for public appearances. Wonder what Santa thinks about this?

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may be dead from a heart attack at 69-years-old, but his certifiable status as a pop culture punchline lives on. The notoriously brutal dictator has often been the butt of jokes in movies and TV shows, including ‘Team America,’ ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘The Simpsons,’ just to name a few. We’ve gathered five of the funniest examples of Kim’s bizarre status as a pop

In a supreme act of compassion on Thursday, a group of good Samaritans in Salt Lake City lifted a minivan off of a wheelchair-bound man trapped underneath. Superman is real! And he’s inside all of us.

In this video, CNN Money anchor Poppy Harlow climbs aboard a 120,000-pound Chieftain tank affectionately named “Larry” and takes it for a spin, crushing a car in the process.

Nothing evokes the holidays more than a performance by a school choir. But what if a riser collapsed while the choir was performing? Definitely not Christmas-y.

In Auckland, New Zealand, a helicopter became entangled in wires and crashed while installing a Christmas tree on the local waterfront. That’s a sure-fire way to dampen your holiday spirit.

In Florida last month, 27-year-old Matthew Whitney Dykes allegedly tried to rob a credit union and lost control of his vehicle while fleeing from police. Fortunately for us, Davy Crockett, er, coonskin cap-wearing eyewitness/generally awesome dude Carter Johnson saw the whole thing and told his story to news cameras.