Turns out that the man on the other end of the biggest NFL draft kiss is related to a mobster. That’s right: Michael Sam’s boyfriend, Vito Cammisano, is the grandson of late Midwest wiseguy William (Willie the Rat) Cammisano. According to the New York Daily News, Cammisano’s father, Gerlarmo (Jerry) Cammisano, 60, served 14 months…

It is the fight that shook up the Internet. On Monday, TMZ released a black-and-white, three-and-a-half-minute-long recording of Solange Knowles viciously attacking her brother-in-law, Jay Z, in a hotel elevator. Now the hotel from which the footage was recorded wants to know how it got to the press. The Standard Hotel in New York City,…

Donald Sterling has gone from racist to ridiculous. In an interview Monday with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, the embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner, who has been banned for life from the NBA for a racist rant that was leaked to TMZ, went HAM on Magic Johnson, mischaracterizing the Hall of Famer’s HIV status to opine that…

On April 15 the Islamist militant group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from a village in Nigeria, and the next day, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, whom the Associated Press reports was fully aware of the mass abductions, was photographed dancing at an event. According to AP, the Nigerian president did not publicly mention the…

Now that all of the legal evidence is pointing to the Sterling family losing ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, the “Sterling Family Public Oddity Tour” is in full effect. On Monday Donald Sterling’s latest attempt at groveling for forgiveness—complete with more Magic Johnson mudslinging—will air on CNN, New York’s Daily News reports. In an…

Updated Monday, May 12, 1:10 p.m. EDT: Community pressure may have forced Sgt. Mourad Mourad to decline the Cop of the Year award after several news outlets reported on public outrage over the choice of recipient: a nine-year veteran of the police force who was involved in the controversial fatal shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray, according…

An Oklahoma death row inmate has been given a six-month stay of execution while officials investigate how the lethal injection of a different inmate, Clayton Lockett, went horribly wrong, the New York Daily News reports. Charles Warner was to have been executed the same day as Lockett in what would have been Oklahoma’s first double…

Tech giant Apple is in negotiations to buy Beats Electronics—the company founded by rapper Dr. Dre and record producer Jimmy Iovine that produces the über-popular Beats by Dre headphones—for $3.2 billion, according to several reports. Reports from the Financial Times, Bloomberg, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal all confirm the negotiations, and…

Residents of the small town of Hearne, Texas, are demanding the immediate firing of a police officer who shot and killed a 93-year-old woman. Authorities say Officer Stephen Stem shot 93-year-old Pearlie Golden on Tuesday after responding to a call from her nephew that Golden was threatening him with a gun, KBTX-TV reports. According to…

Nigeria’s government is offering about $310,000 for information leading to the return of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants as the country acknowledges increased international assistance to help find the girls, CNN reports. During a World Economic Forum speech Thursday, President Goodluck Jonathan opined that the global outcry inspired by the kidnappings would be the…