After a truck driver for Walmart crashed into his limousine van last month, killing one and injuring several others, Tracy Morgan has announced via a rep that he is suing Walmart for damages. The suit alleges that the company was negligent for allowing their truck driver to drive 700 miles without sleeping for 24 hours.

Tommy Ramone, also known as Thomas Erdelyi, died on Friday at his home in Ridgewood, Queens. Erdelyi was the last surviving original member of the New York-based punk band The Ramones. He had suffered from bile duct cancer.

A video of Rihanna giving a lap dance to a bespectacled, "nerdy" audience member made the rounds yesterday, as the guy was declared both the luckiest and the most awkward Rihanna fan of all time. Awkward, maybe, but this ain't exactly Rihanna's first lap dance rodeo—at least a half-dozen other fans have gotten just as lucky.

A man near Denver has contracted "the rarest and most fatal form of plague." Oh, brother!

Earlier this week, writing for The Daily Beast, Roland Martin proposed a solution to combat the surging violence on Chicago's South and West Sides: Send the National Guard to Chicago.

The Center for Disease Control is closing its anthrax and flu labs after two accidents that could have exposed employees and the public to disease. "Shipments of all infectious agents" are going to be halted, too. The screw-ups, one of which was just reported today, weren't minor.

Henrietta Regina Dickson, a 55-year-old homeless woman, was killed in St. Petersburg, Fla. this week when a driver unwittingly parked her car on top of her unconscious body, pinning her underneath.

Like we always do at this time, share your current jams (summer or otherwise) in the comments below like so:

The first time I saw Richard Linklater's Boyhood, it won me over within 30 minutes of its almost three-hour duration—around the time that Ethan Hawke shows up and gently subverts the deadbeat-dad role we've been set up to expect from him. His kids—the film's protagonist, Mason (Ellar Coltrane), and his sister Samantha (played by Lorelei Linklater, Richard's daughter)—haven't seen him in over a year, but when he comes back into their lives, it's full force. He is engaged, enthusiastic, and in love with his children. They forgive him immediately, and so did I.

Love, some say, is pain. They shout this out, at inopportune times, like during dinner parties, or at the weddings of acquaintances. "Love is pain!" they holler. Few believe that this is because of Tourrette Syndrome, though it could plausibly be so.

It's been a pretty successful week in A-list celebrity relations for the Daily Mail, which just had to apologize to George Clooney after he accused the tabloid of making stories about his fiancée's family, and is now reportedly being sued by Angelina Jolie over a video taken 15 years ago by a man who claims he was her drug dealer.

The Spring, Texas shooter who allegedly killed six of his family members execution-style fainted in court today. The Associated Press reports that Ronald Lee Haskell, 33, collapsed after hearing a prosecutor read the charges against him.

Just as the World Cup is dwindling down, another sports story has taken over your Twitter feed: the free agency of LeBron James, the best and most famous basketball player in the world. Four years ago James became a national villain after the saga of his first free agency culminated in a one-hour television special, but he has reversed the role today by choosing to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Here's yet another highlight reel of Germany's dominant 7-1 performance against Brazil in the World Cup semifinals. Sure, you've seen it all before, but this version has some minor touchups that only really detail-oriented viewers will appreciate.

Penelope, the pregnant Mexican Red Rump Tarantula shown above, might look scary, but her owner assures she's "mostly harmless." Yeah right, pal.

Getting angry about real dead animals is one thing, but now Facebook commenters are in a rage about fake ones.

This is your periodic update on what is hip.

A 14-year-old girl was reportedly raped Tuesday night in a remote village in the Indian state Jharkhand as "revenge" for another alleged rape. According to New Delhi TV, the self-appointed headman of the village ordered the attack, which was allegedly carried out by a 25-year-old man.

There's a reason they tell you to keep your hands and feet inside the car at all times.

Reynolds Tobacco is seeking to buy Lorillard, bringing Camels and Newports together in a $56 billion cigarette behemoth just in time for everyone to switch from Camels and Newports to e-cigarettes.