• Evangeline Lilly’s Kailua, Hawaii, house was completely destroyed by fire yesterday. Up in flames. Burned to the ground. The good news? It was a rental.
• Jeezy kicks Hicks. Sales of American Idol winner Taylor Hicks’ debut album nearly made it to 300,000, but his 298,000 was trounced by Young Jeezy’s chart-topping 352,000. (Variety)
• Edvard Munch’s influential Expressionist painting The Scream may be too damaged to repair after it was stolen by masked gunmen from the Munch Museum in Oslo two years ago. Abrasion and water damage have curators screaming, but one said, “We have a large swath that is very visible.” (Yahoo)
• First it was baby Jesuses stolen out of the garden creches in an Illinois neighborhood, now it’s the lovably secular Frosty the Snowman taking a beating on an Ohio lawn. Stabbing, actually. “I was in bed reading and my husband came in and said, ‘Frosty got hit again,’ because it’s the third time,” said a neighbor across the street. (WFTV)
• A Maryland kindergarten student, 5, has been accused of sexual harassment for pinching a little girl’s ass. “He knows nothing about sex,” said his father. The incident will go on the tot’s permanent record. (Herald-Mail)