One of the world's deadliest prison fires ripped through a jail in Honduras today, burning and suffocating over 350 inmates to death. As of now, over 475 prisoners have escaped. It's believed that the blaze started after a prisoner set fire to a mattress late Tuesday night. It didn't take long for the flames to cause epic damage -- the AP reports that within minutes, 100 inmates were killed as firefighters tried to find prison guards who had keys and could unlock the cells.

The prison was built in the 1940s to hold about 400 inmates, but as of yesterday, it housed over 800, and 100 guards. It's a terrible tragedy, but wouldn't you know, not everyone sees it like that. 

It's a sad and horrific story. An as yet unidentified LA mother has been taken into custody for allegedly attempting to drown her 1- and 5-year-old daughters in the family's tub. And just like Andrea Yates -- the Texas mom convicted of doing the same thing a decade ago -- there's talk that this mom was suffering from depression but never got the treatment that very well could have prevented tragedy.

According to the LAPD, the girls' father was out at the grocery store when the woman "snapped." Police say he came home and was able to stop his wife before calling 911, but not early enough to prevent injuries that would claim his 1-year-old's life. Their 5-year-old remains in critical condition.

How was your Valentine's Day? Was it sexy? Was it steamy? Did you ... you know? Well, however it was, I can tell you this: It was not more memorable than Stephanie Morgan Pelzner and Nikolas Alexander Harbar's. 'Cause they got arrested for doing some dirty, dirty things.

The Oregon couple thought they'd add some spice to their relationship yesterday with a little role-playing. But we're not talking run-of-the-mill French maid/businessman named Sven role-playing here, we're talking serious role-playing. Dangerous role-playing. Tie up naked Stephanie, duct tape her mouth shut, and throw her in the back of a Subaru role-playing. And, yes, she was into it. The cops, however, not so much.

Hold the phone! Rick Santorum may have just committed political suicide. I know, I know, the guy keeps winning primaries, and as recently as yesterday, reports said he was beating Mitt (what the hell?!), but the latest news on the GOP presidential candidate is being called his "October Surprise." Although, after you read/see it, you will most likely thank GOODNESS we're not as far along as October, and he is not yet the actual GOP candidate with a true shot at the White House.

We already knew Rick Santorum pretty much hates progress/gay people/women's rights, but did you know if he was president, he'd like to turn the clock back to the Dark Ages, aka pre-1960, before birth control? Interview footage from this past October shows the candidate saying that as chief executive, he would confront the "dangers of contraception." (Dun dun daaaaah.) Oh, and that's not all ...

There's a certain hysteria that accompanies almost every fast food experience. Maybe it's the glorious scent of fries being cooked in gallons of oil that makes us lose our minds a little bit, but there's definitely something that sends us into an irrational frenzy when our order gets messed up. The struggle is usually internal -- the furthest most of us go is to say something to the cashier like Excuse me? Sorry. I ordered a cheeseburger. This is chicken nuggets. -- but when the fury is not compartmentalized and we forget to remind ourselves to calm the eff down, things can get out of hand. Case in point: a man attacked a Wendy's with a sledgehammer.

The 45-year-old perp was so frustrated with what went down at a Wendy's in Ohio that he got up, went across the street to a Home Depot, bought himself a six-pound sledgehammer, and returned to take his anger out on the burger joint's windows.

Another day, another chilling revelation in the case of missing child Ayla Reynolds. Two months after the then 20-month-old toddler disappeared from her crib in her Waterville, Maine home, her mother, Trista Reynolds, is telling the media that the girl's father, Justin DiPietro, took out a life insurance policy on the child. It's looking like any benefit of the doubt people were willing to give the man who was the last person to see his daughter alive is about to go out the window.

I hate to jump to conclusions here, but I just don't see how DiPietro is going to explain this one away. Especially when you look at the timing.

Well it looks like Republicans in Congress are zeroing in on a very important project. Passing the transportation bill? Nope. And as usual, it has nothing whatsoever to do with job creation or any other important matters that would actually improve our lives. Apparently a few members of Congress want to investigate Media Matters for violating their 501c3 status.

And why not? They have time on their hands (apparently?) now that the investigation into Planned Parenthood has been revealed as totally bogus -- oh no wait, I think that's still going on. But anyway, as part of their ongoing demonstration of what government waste looks like, they would like to yank the rug out from under a liberal watch-dog organization so the elections go just a little bit smoother for them. Yes, yes, they should definitely do this. But let's cast the net a little wider, shall we?

The latest details about the Powell murder-suicide in Washington state were revealed at a public meeting held by fire and law enforcement officials to brief neighborhood residents about the harrowing tragedy that occurred right in their own backyard.

One of the most chilling revelations to come out was the fact that the house that Josh Powell showed social workers on his supervised visits -- the one he blew up last week -- was a complete sham. According to authorities, he staged it to look like a loving, family home complete with photographs of his family on the walls. But in reality it was a "fake home" meant to fool the social workers (which apparently it succeeded in doing).

Here's the secret about the home that's almost too awful to believe: Josh Powell didn't even live there!