Meet the stache shield, a rogue corgi gets a mini vacation, and more amazing news from the past week.

Kobe Bryant to Retire,ESPN 

Kobe Bryant, who has helped the Lakers win five NBA championships over a 20-year career spent entirely in Los Angeles, announced Sunday on The Players' Tribune website that he will retire after this season, writing that "This season is all I have left to give." In a first-person story titled "Dear Basketball," the 37-year-old wrote in the form of a poem that the sport "gave a six-year-old boy his Laker dream/And I'll always love you for it." Branyt writes, "But I can't love you obsessively for much longer. This season is all I have left to give. My heart can take the pounding. My mind can handle the grind but my body knows it's time to say goodbye." 

Meet the Stache Shield,Odd Company

Meet the Stache Shield—the greatest and most multifunctional mustache protector of all times. Inspired by the great inventors from the 1800s, the Stache Shield is for the modern man. It works just as perfectly for your coffee cup and beer mug as strapped around your head. When you're not using the Shield, you can even wear it as a necklace. The Stache Shield is designed and handcrafted in Sweden by the Odd Company, and 10% of the sales goes directly to the Movember Foundation. This could very well be the best Christmas gift ever for the bearded man.

“Hot Cop of Castro” Hit-and-Run,SF Weekly 

Christopher Kohrs, the San Francisco police officer celebrated as the "Hot Cop of the Castro"for his chiseled physique and willingness to show it off, was arrested early Sunday for felony hit-and-run, according to his brothers and sisters-in-arms at the SFPD. Kohrs, 38, was allegedly piloting a Dodge Charger along the Broadway strip of adult fun in North Beach at 2:20 a.m. Sunday when he struck two men crossing the street near Montgomery, according to a police press release. He abandoned the car — registered to him — at the scene but was arrested an undisclosed amount of time later, police said Monday, and made bail sometime on Sunday.

Corgi Flies to Hawaii by Accident,Time 

American Airlines put her on the wrong flight. The airline mishap landed a very cute corgi named Bethany in Honolulu, Hawaii, instead of Jackson, Mississippi. But she really didn’t seem to mind the mixup. Bethany was heading from Seattle to her new home in Jackson, Hawaii News Now reports. But during a layover in Dallas, American Airlines staff placed her on the wrong flight, ultimately sending her to a tropical paradise instead.

Big Changes for Yahoo, The Washington Post

Big changes may be coming for Yahoo as the company's board meets and reportedly considers a proposal to sell the company's core business — the search and advertising sections of the 20-year-old company that have struggled to compete with Google and Facebook. But what is precipitating discussions of a radical shift is a mundane financial issue: Taxes. With Yahoo struggling to keep up with rivals, its Web business -- e-mail, search, social platforms and news sites -- have tumbled in value. Right now, the company has a total market value of $34 billion. But much of that is because it owns 15 percent of the fast-growing Chinese Web retailer Alibaba. Yahoo's stake is estimated to be worth as much as $32 billion.