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UPDATED 8/6/20 In the media, amicable divorces and legal separations are few and far between. But one couple on the outs couldn't help but celebrate their recently filed divorce with a selfie. According to Huffington Post, Canadian couple Shannon and Chris Neuman filed for a divorce in late August after 11 years of marriage. Then, they took a selfie and uploaded it to Instagram. In the photograph, the two don't look like a typical couple after a divorce; rather, they looked accomplished, happy even. The Instagram caption read: "Are we smiling because the partner we chose for forever turned out to not to be the forever partner we needed? Of course not. We're smiling because we have done something extraordinary (we think anyway!) We have respectfully, thoughtfully an...

A Lincoln Park man who has chosen to remain anonymous won $4 million on a $30 World Class Million scratch off lottery ticket. "I scratched the numbers on the ticket first, before revealing the prizes," said the winner, who did the game right there in the store. "When I saw I had a match, I figured that I had won my $30 back. As I scratched the prize off, I quickly realized it was more than $30. Once I saw the '4MIL' symbol, I could barely breathe and thought I was having a panic attack." Only a few people were in the store at the time, all of whom kept staring at the winner "because I was acting pretty funny," he said. He handed the ticket to the clerk so he could scan it, who then started screaming, and told the winner to sign the ticket quickly. When the winner got home, his girlfrie...

While a handful of local officials in Kentucky, Texas, and other southern states still stubbornly refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex partners, a judge in Tennessee is acting out in court. In September, Thomas Bumgardner and his wife Pamela filed for divorce after nearly 13 years of marriage. But Hamilton County Chancellor Jeffery Atherton had other ideas. He refused their divorce petition, citing the Supreme Court's June ruling in favor of gay marriage in his reasoning. He lamented that because the Supreme Court has declared that "a marriage is no longer a marriage," he is unable to issue traditional divorces without further clarification from SCOTUS. His reasoning appears to go something like this: marriage is between one man and one woman; gay marriage is now legal; QED, noth...

Two young children have passed away after an oak tree limb fell on the tent they were sleeping in at a popular Yosemite National Park campground Friday. Because they were minors, authorities say they will not be releasing the names or the ages of the children involved, and they ask for privacy after this tragedy. Park spokesman Scott Gediman also says the deaths are currently under investigation. "Our thoughts are with the families as they grieve this tragedy," park superintendent Don Neubacher said in an official statement. Reports say that the children were sleeping in a tent at Upper Pines Campground in Yosemite Valley when the limb fell around 5 in the morning. After receiving several 911 calls to report the incident, medics arrived to find the two dead. The event is under investigat...

A North Carolina woman who won $188 million in the February Powerball lottery likely spent millions of dollars bailing out her fiancé, twice. The New York Daily News reported that Lamar “Hot Sauce” McDow, who is engaged to lotto winner Marie Holmes, has been released on bond from prison two times this year. McDow as arrested in November of 2014 for charges of trafficking heroin, which posted a $3 million bail. He was then sent back to jail in July on similar charges, with an escalated bail of $6 million. While Brunswick County Police have not released the name of the individual responsible for paying McDow’s bail, it is likely that Holmes fronted the bill for her fiancé's wrongdoings. These incidents were not the first crimes committed by McDow, who has a long criminal history. His crim...