Adam Howell was at an Olive Garden in Charlotte last night when he overheard a couple at a nearby table quarreling

Christina Amphlett of the Divinyls, best known for the quintessentially '90s hit "I Touch Myself," is dead at 53. She had multiple sclerosis and breast cancer.

Police are looking for a suspect who used a boat to access a Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear power plant Sunday morning and exchanged fire with a security guard on the plant grounds before fleeing downriver.

Despite accidentally shooting himself in the face with a speargun last week, Bruno Barcellos de Souza Coutinho of Brazil will somehow manage to leave the hospital with his brain intact.

This weekend, as law-enforcement officers across the country devoted their resources to the manhunt and capture of the dangerous criminal Reese Witherspoon, an actual crime against humanity was being ignored: Musician Amanda Palmer was writing the worst poem ever composed in the English language, "A Poem for Dzhokhar."

Everyone is looking for answers in the Boston Bombers' Chechen ethnicity. Sarah Kendzior explains why this is dumb.

Ryan Lochte is a douchebag with gills, George W. Bush without the evil and/or a golden lab turned into a human. His fame, his good looks, his 11 Olympic medals, his seeming good nature, his unending capacity for inanity and the singularity he achieves within his babbling all make him a perfect specimen for reality TV. E! has given him a show with a suitably dumb name, What Would Ryan Lochte Do...With a TV Show? (Note: The name of the show is What Would Ryan Lochte Do? Each episode is titled this with an elipses and something more specific about the show following — the first episode was called "What Would Ryan Lochte Do...With a TV Show?" Still dumb, maybe not as dumb.) It debuted last night. It was excellent.

Amid reports of a vandalized hot tub cover and a stolen snowboard, one item on the sleepy police blotter for the ski resort town of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, stood out for being the most exciting incident to occur within city limits in some time:

Carl's Jr. continues to dig its greasy claws into the munchies market, one "high-dea" at a time.

With the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings finally awake and apparently answering questions, authorities are eager to see if their suspicion that he and his older brother were planning on hitting targets beyond Boston will be confirmed.

Same as the old Gawker. Sort of. As you can see, a few things are different around here this morning. But let's start with what's not changing.

One week after a gut-wrenching Times op-ed, over half the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are now on hunger strike.

A French sailor in Australia narrowly escaped death after being attacked by a crocodile. Yoann Galeran, a 29-year-old deckhand, was swimming out to retrieve a dinghy in Nhulunbuy, Australia when he felt a heavy weight on top of him. Right away, he told NT News, he knew it was a crocodile.

Perhaps stressed by the Koch Brothers' reported interest in buying up major newspapers across the country, Rupert Murdoch has taken up a new hobby: transcendental meditation. Murdoch tweeted the news Sunday afternoon, admitting that he's had some difficulty mastering the practice.

A brand new TV anchor's first words on-air? "Fuckin' Shit!" Seems to be a recurring theme for local TV reporters.

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is reportedly awake and responding in writing to questions from investigators.

Drunk driving is, generally speaking, a bad idea, even if you're, say, the husband of a wealthy movie star. A worse idea? Deciding to drunkenly berate the police officers arresting your husband, especially if you're the famous movie star wife of the person getting arrested. Unfortunately for everyone involved, this is just what Reese Witherspoon did early Friday morning, a decision that resulted in her arrest.

In a study that surprises almost no one, the Bloomberg administration has found that half of New York City residents are "poor" or "near-poor" meaning that they were "making less than 150 percent of the poverty threshold." This is a small rise in the amount of poor from 2009, when the recession officially ended. But as New York City has made abundantly clear, the recovery has not been shared by all (or even many).

A husband is suing his wife of barely a week for stealing $72,000 worth of wedding gifts, according to the New York Post. She allegedly kept the $24,000 two-carat diamond engagement ring, snatched a pile of cash and checks on her way out, and absconded with two gold necklaces, three diamond necklaces, a gold bracelet, and a gold ring.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains heavily sedated at a Boston Hospital, as investigators wait for him to regain the ability to communicate before they interrogate him. Unfortunately for investigators, he suffered a serious injury to his neck, that might prevent him from speaking for some time or at all. Authorities are trying to determine whether the shot that injured the suspect was self-inflicted, and believe it to be a strong possibility "because of the trajectory and location of the bullet wound in his neck."