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At 2:40 a.m. on December 9, 2001, Durham, North Carolina-based novelist Michael Peterson made a frantic call to 911 to report an accident. What followed was a decades-long mystery that still hasn't quite ended.

Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for nonviolent resistance in the civil rights movement. The Deacons for Defense and Justice preferred to shoot their way out of trouble.

Don't blame the government if you're unhappy with a speed limit—blame your fellow drivers.

Consider yourselves warned.

A recent change in policy gives more power to private landowners.

People stopped by police on the popular A&E program often say they don't consent to be filmed. So how does the show find a way to do it?

No domestic hair ties for this renowned justice.

In the 1700s, unlawful assemblies were forced to listen as the Riot Act was read aloud. If they didn't disperse, the punishment was—quite reasonably—death.

The Swiss government has taken a strong stance in the "can lobsters feel pain?" debate.

And for the first time in decades, Congress probably won't do anything to stop it.

In 2008, the popular arcade game started malfunctioning. The company blamed a rogue programmer. He insisted they were digging in the wrong hole.

Funded by members of the infamous James-Younger gang, the 19th century penal paper was the first to be produced solely by inmates, for inmates.