One of America's great pastimes—chasing after the ice cream truck as a kid while it rolled down your block, after which you'd devour each scoop with friends on a hot summer day—may not be as innocent as you remember. NPR recently unearthed troubling news about the beloved jingle that blares from ice cream trucks all across America.

Clay Aiken won the Democratic nomination for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district this afternoon, just one day after his primary opponent, Keith Crisco, died from injuries suffered in a fall.

Sometimes someone forces you to really evaluate whether you could oppose the death penalty in all cases. Sometimes that person commits suicide in a prison cell, and you set your complicated feelings down for a bit.

Toby Sheldon, 33, spent $100,000 on plastic surgery so he could look somewhat like Justin Bieber. Apparently he didn't have anything left over for this music video.

Amid political pressure over its decisions to put on a "lesbian" play and offer incoming freshmen pro-LGBT readings, an embattled college in the South Carolina public university system has suddenly announced it's closing its gender-studies center.

Karl Rove is smart. A cynical master of dark arts, sure, but clever about it in a self-interested way that this current crop of inept kamikaze conservatives isn't. Which is why it's weird to watch him degenerate into another conspiracy whisperer. Has he had a serious health episode?

The usually tedious one-man morality crusade Bill "Catholic League" Donohue sends along a genuinely valuable tip: On May 15, this Thursday, Sotheby's will be auctioning off a copy of Andres Serrano's Piss Christ, the maximum icon of the old Culture Wars of 25 years ago. Ask your middle-aged uncles and aunts about it.

Why are we all talking about kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls? Obviously because usurper Obama needs to distract us from Benghazi and the VA, according to former Iraqi-detainee torturer Allen West.

Man of Steel director Zack Snyder just tweeted out the first official photo of Ben Affleck as Batman, along with a peek at one of the Dark Knight's new vehicles. Say what you will about the casting decision, but Affleck does at least look the square-jawed part.

reBar, a popular bar and restaurant in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood, suddenly shut down on Friday amid claims of bankruptcy, stranding as many as 200 couples who'd paid tens of thousands of dollars in wedding deposits.

A 17-year-old girl says she was kicked out of her homeschool prom because some lecherous dads complained that she was arousing "impure thoughts."

What you see above is a "bounce house"—those inflatable trampoline domes that kids love to jump in—being swept 50 feet into the air in South Glens Falls, N.Y. yesterday. Of the three children inside, two were taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

A Thai Buddhist monk and a group of people carrying lotus and candles march in front of Marble Temple in Bangkok on Tuesday as part of Wesaka Bucha activities. Wesaka Bucha, the most important Buddhist holy day of the year, marks the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha. Image via Sakchai Lalit/AP.

Alec Baldwin was arrested in New York earlier today, reportedly after the NYPD stopped him for biking the wrong way on the street. CBS New York reports Baldwin became belligerent as police tried to issue him a summons and was arrested.

One of the many unanswered questions about the elevator dustup between Solange Knowles and Jay Z at the Met Gala is why Beyoncé stood calmly by while her sister attacked her husband. Is Bey taking anyone's side, here?

A tipster who was at Bushwick pizza joint Roberta's on Sunday night tells us that Beyoncé and Jay Z had dinner there—just a few days after Beyoncé's sister Solange attacked Jay in an elevator. Social-media documentation of the evening seems to show a pleasant-enough date (at least, no one is getting kicked), but our source says that Beyoncé "stormed out," ending the meal.

Kellar the 3-year-old English Springer was born completely blind, but that doesn't slow him down when it comes to playing fetch.

Tonight, the state of Texas is set to conduct the first execution since Oklahoma botched Clayton Lockett's last month. The death of 41-year-old Robert James Campbell, who confessed to and was convicted of the 1991 rape and murder of Alexandra Rendon, is scheduled for 6 p.m. He will die by lethal injection of a single drug, pentobarbitol.

Police say they're investigating two break-ins at the Kent, England, home where TV presenter, model, and socialite Peaches Geldof died last month.

The most disappointing thing about Beyoncé's sister losing it at Jay Z in an elevator is the lack of sound on the security tape, which makes it difficult to figure out what the fight was all about. Fortunately, it's 2014, so we have access to technology that can solve this problem: Namely, 50 Cent's Instagram account.