In Ontario, Canada, ribfests were largely non-profit affairs. Then one man decided to make a profit off their popularity.

A town ruined by the chemical C8, an ingredient in the making of Teflon.

Twenty-five years later, the deaths of a couple on the Trail remain shocking – and mostly unexplained.

Life at a roadside zoo with ligers, orangutans, and an elephant in Florida.

The photographs that Caesar, a Syrian military photographer, smuggled out of Assad’s death dungeons.

When Elysian Brewing sold itself to Big Beer, it set off a revolt among Seattle craft beer enthusiasts.

Michael Phelps returns to his Olympic training after a 45-day stint at The Meadows.

How a tiny island 5,000 miles from the U.S. mainland has produced so many NFL players.

“She can write like a man, they said, by which they meant, She can write.”

How Michael Lewis’s The Big Short became a Hollywood comedy.

Famous people and the media have always needed each other. It has been a long, mutually beneficial (and mutually profitable) partnership. And it’s over.

Eddie Davison sued New York for locking him up under a false premise. Now the state says he owes $2 million.

A report from the border of ISIS territory in Iraq, where civilians are battling to survive.

After his daughter died in a terrorist attack, Stephen Flatow won an unprecedented judgment against her killers. Then he had to figure out how to actually collect.

In his own final days, a Right to Die activist tells the story of his secret, illegal assisted-suicide service.

Centralia, Pennsylvania, used to be a place with kids and schools and churches and houses. Then the ground caught on fire.

She was not just a poet, she was an “event” in American literature all by herself.

The article that kept the New Yorker alive was written by a debutante. Who happened to be married to Irving Berlin.

America’s biggest for-profit foster care agency has a history of abuse, neglect, and even deaths to account for.

Finding the thread of depression in the personal history of a friend’s suicide.

While accused killer Robert Durst was in Galveston, he made a few friends besides Morris Black.

Nowadays, the young and privileged view un- and under-paid assistantships as the road to a successful creative career. Are they deluding themselves?

Craig Cunningham has a simple solution for getting bill collectors off his back. He sues them.

It took a desperate screenwriter to find Max Mermelstein, Miami’s former coke overlord, after twenty-five years in hiding.