One must put the welfare of others ahead of their own well-being.

I’m serious. Can anyone please tell me why “we’re missing someone”?

A 46-year-old Farmington Hills man is facing life in prison after police say he videotaped himself raping an 11-year-old girl who apparently had been drugged. Richard R. Gerard was charged Wednesday with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, second-degree criminal sexual conduct and possession of child pornography. He was arrested Tuesday after his ex-wife found a tape [...]

former suburban Chicago nursing home worker charged with raping a profoundly brain-damaged resident who later gave birth changed his plea to guilty Wednesday in DuPage County Circuit Court. Authorities said Reynaldo Brucal Jr., 19, of Schaumburg, raped the 23-year-old woman, who suffers from cerebral palsy, at the Alden Village Health Facility for Children and Young [...]

A 21-year-old woman’s attempt to pass a counterfeit $20 bill at a gas station was foiled when the clerk realized it was blank on one side. Leah R. Jarolimek, of Cedar Grove, was charged with a felony count of forgery following her failed attempt to buy chips and cigarettes, according to a complaint filed Friday [...]

Paramedics found the 22-year-old bleeding, with a Black Cat Thunderbolt Rocket lodged inside him, when they attended the scene in Sunderland. He suffered a scorched colon and is now recovering in hospital, where his condition is described as stable. A spokesman for the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) said the prank could have been fatal. [...]

Jay Villemarette said, “Some people would say that I am exaggerating when I say how greasy a human is. I am not exaggerating. It is nasty.” Villemarette would know. He’s the founder of an Oklahoma City company that bills itself as the world’s leading supplier of osteological specimens — bones and skulls. The former auto [...]