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The recent trend of creepy clowns creeping people out seems to be gaining steam. Over the past week, a school dad was arrested for following his child’s bus while dressed as a clown, several schools had to deal with threats relating to creepy clowns on or around campus, and one California mother reported a clown attempting to kidnap her child. Now, kids are getting in trouble for posting clown-related threats on social media, scaring locals and disrupting schools....

Donovan McNabb allegedly had a 0.17 blood alcohol content (over twice the legal limit) when he was arrested for a suspected DUI in Arizona last week. It’s the former NFL QB’s second such arrest in as many years. But McNabb has an excuse this time. Video from the incident has McNabb blaming the whole thing on a cold: “Well, first of all, I got a cold. So I’ve been on cough medicine....

A New Mexico DWI suspect may be in even more trouble after he allegedly tried to bribe an officer with Mountain Dew. Luis Rodriguez-Neri, 21, was found by officers Monday after they were called to investigate a car that had “slammed into a light pole,” reports Albuquerque’s KOAT-TV. Rodriguez-Neri allegedly told deputies that he’d tossed back “six shots of Bacardi” before getting behind the wheel, and he refused to take breath or field sobriety tests....

After a high profile discrimination lawsuit rocked Silicon Valley two years ago, few insiders thought things would ever be the same in the corporate culture of high tech firms. Ellen Pao lost her case at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, but her lawsuit brought national attention to gender discrimination in the tech industry. Pao, who is now chief diversity and inclusion officer for Kapor Center for Social Impact and a venture partner at Kapor Capital, said Silicon Valley has to stop shooting the messengers....

Face it: most of you probably don’t like your job. Between long hours and tedious work, you’re likely having trouble keeping a smile on your face. But with layoffs looming, you need to convince the higher-ups that you not only like your job, but that you spend a lot of time doing it. If this sounds like you, we’ve got a few suggestions, and they won’t make you look like an idiot....

An Illinois man who sewed his teenage son’s butt won’t be going to jail. Randy Swopes, the boy’s father, has accepted a plea deal instead. Swopes, 52, will be put on 24-months probation and have to do 250 hours of public service, NBC Chicago reports. The incident took place in 2008. His son was 14 years old at the time. So why did the elder Swopes take a needle and thread to the teen?...

Which of the following controversial posts about Confederate monuments made Judge James Hinkle abruptly resign? A. “The nut cases tearing down monuments are equivalent to ISIS destroying history.” B. “It looks like all the snowflakes have no concept of history. It is what it is. Get over it and move on.” C. Observing that Confederate monuments have the rear ends of horses facing north, he wrote: “PERFECT.” The correct answer is “none of the above....

What’s up with law school admissions? Not minority admissions. A report on national law school admissions trends that came from collaboration between the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) and the Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic at the Columbia University School of Law suggests that even though law school capacities have increased in the past 15 years the trend for admission of Mexican-American and African-American students has taken the opposite trend....

Barry ScheckBarry Scheck is co-founder of The Innocence Project, a “national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.” Seriously, how do you beat that? He’s living the dream and is actually doing what he went to law school to do. (Plus, he was my crim law professor, and a great one at that)....

For those of you wondering what David Bowie and Eli Lilly could possibly have in common, the answer is five years. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the validity of Alimta, Lilly’s lung cancer drug, on Friday. That means the company won’t face generic competition until 2017, reports Bloomberg. The dispute in this case centered around abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs) filed by several generic pharmaceutical manufacturers seeking approval to market generic formulations of the chemotherapy agent pemetrexed, (which Lilly markets as Alimta)....

Some strange monkey business went down in a local Little Caesars pizza shop in Southgate, Michigan. A man, dressed in a gorilla suit, entered the restaurant and dumped a bag of sand onto the eatery’s floor on November 25. Employees say it wasn’t the first time it’s happened. What exactly spurred this act of grainy rebellion? It’s unclear, especially because if the gorilla-suited man knew anything about gorillas he should know that the great ape is considered peaceful....

Police in the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, are looking for a man who robbed a convenience store – wearing a toilet paper mask. Authorities are searching for a suspect who came into the store with a knife and demanded money wearing a toilet paper mask wrapped around his head to conceal his identity, the Journal-Star reports. Authorities describe the suspect as a 25 to 33 year-old white male, about 6-foot-2, 180 pounds with blue eyes and a skinny face....

Three minor league baseball players filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball, alleging the League violated state and federal labor laws. The suit also names Commissioner Bud Selig and three teams: the Miami Marlins, Kansas City Royals, and San Francisco Giants. Aaron Senne, Michael Liberto and Oliver Odle are alleging a spate of labor law violations and are seeking class-action status, which could raise the stakes to a whole new playing field....

‘Let’s do this! Let’s do this!’ You gotta love the little guy’s attitude in that Kia commercial, when he strides into the office like he’s an NBA player walking onto the court. He reaches out to slap hands with his co-workers before he slaps the boss’s butt. So maybe that’s a little over the top, but it’s the attitude we love. It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog....

California’s Marin Superior Court has decided to back off from a strange plan which would have put arrested juveniles in glass boxes during their court appearances. Instead, the Marin Juvenile Court will be closed - and juveniles will now go through hearings at the main courthouse. So why put juveniles in glass boxes in the first place? Are they fragile like some sort of prized treasure or age-old dinosaur bone?...

Have you ever been caught by one of those pesky red light or speed enforcement cameras? Did you have your siren and lights on at the time? If not, you may include yourself in the company of at least some of the 26 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, police officers who have been busted by red light and speed cameras. It seems that the cops have been photographed running red lights and speeding in America’s heartland, and not always with good reason....

The Republic of Texas was its own country for a decade between 1836 and 1846 before being annexed by the United States. And some Texans aren’t big fans of that annexation, maintaining that the Republic of Texas remains a sovereign nation. This is all well and good. After all, residents of Key West consider themselves citizens of the Conch Republic; got their own flag and everything. The problem comes when you start serving court papers from your “sovereign nation” on a judge and lawyer, ordering them to appear before an “international common law court....

Workers at Lawrence City Hall knew there was a toilet paper thief amongst them, but for a while there, they couldn’t figure out which one of their coworkers stole toilet paper from the building’s bathroom. Finally, at the end of last week, they learned that it was an outside job, perpetrated by none other than Lawrence, Massachusetts resident Roger Pinkham. But only after he tried to frame his brother. Roger Pinkham was caught red-handed last week when an employee noticed him carrying a box down the stairs and alerted police, reports the Eagle-Tribune....

The Chicago Cubs broke their World Series curse this November, winning the championship for the first time in over a century. Now, the newly victorious baseball team is looking to pick up some new talent. Legal talent, that is. And that’s just one of the dream jobs we have in store for you today. So, as part of our affiliate relationship with Indeed, here are the three coolest legal jobs we could find this week....

If you’re thinking of training your bird to swear, consider the legal trouble that could cause you. It hasn’t gone well for Lynne Taylor. The Rhode Island woman has been sued by her ex-husband’s new girlfriend, Kathleen Melker, for teaching her cockatoo to call Melker a whore. Normally there’s nothing legally you can do if someone swears at you so it seems as if training your bird to do it wouldn’t make a difference....