[People run after an explosion and building collapse in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York on Wednesday. The explosion leveled an apartment building, and sent flames and billowing black smoke above the skyline. Image via Jeremy Sailing/AP.]

Louisiana prisoner Glenn Ford has been exonerated and released after 30 years on death row, a fact that should make our entire nation queasy.

A New Zealand man working on an oil rig in the South China Sea claims he witnessed missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 burst into flames before disappearing.

Rachel Canning, the 18-year-old high school cheerleader who sued her parents for college tuition, has agreed to move back in with them, her parents' lawyer said Wednesday.

President Obama plans to use executive action to expand the number of American workers eligible for overtime pay. For those conservatives whose hackles are raised, take heart: Obama is tossing pebbles against a huge, advancing monster of inequality that may not be slain in this generation.

"It was the craziest thing," said Robin Sandusky, 31, who before yesterday afternoon used to be a person like you who never ate a salad with a lizard head in it. "After a few bites, I look down at my fork, and think, 'Oh, is that a piece of asparagus?' And then I saw that it had eyes, and an arm."

The Nybro Action Team consists of Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex Bejerstrand, two under-employed friends and former Nybro residents now living in northern Sweden. Hjalmar is a student and a chef; Alex helps run his father's talent agency. They will be recapping Season 3 of HBO's Girls.

Dottie Sandusky, wife of former Penn State assistant football coach and current convicted sex offender Jerry Sandusky, continues to stand by her man. She appeared on the Today Show Wednesday morning to claim the victims in the case "were manipulated, and saw money."

He said it in Dazed and Confused. He said it at the Oscars. He's even selling T-shirts. But where did Matthew McConaughey's catchphrase, "Alright, alright, alright," come from?

Barack Obama's pitch for Healthcare.gov was either the most forced part of his appearance on Between Two Ferns or the best joke, depending on who you ask. Either way, it did what it was intended to do, driving traffic to the health insurance marketplace.

A gas leak triggered a powerful explosion in an East Harlem apartment building this morning, injuring dozens of people and killing at least seven. More than 200 firefighters responded to the blast, which completely destroyed one building and most of another.

The other night my roommate ordered pizza. She asked me to sign for her pizza, which she paid for by credit, while she went outside to smoke immediately before the it was scheduled to arrive. I didn't want to but said sure.

"In an age of sexting and Snapchat, of 'Girls Gone Wild' and friends with benefits..." Ruth Marcus' plug-and-play style of vacuous columnizing makes her the Thomas Friedman of boring sex scolds.

Flight MH370's final radio message signaled that everything on board was normal. "All right, roger that," the flight's pilot replied to Malaysian air control, just minutes before the plane vanished over the the South China Sea.

Speculate below. (Hint: "Last week I bought, like, 20 deer hunter games.")

Last week, a North Carolina drug company told the parents of a dying seven-year-old that they couldn't sell him a potentially life-saving treatment because doing so would slow their efforts to get the drug to market.

Here's the best story about group sex you'll read this week.

"There's nothing about gays in [Arizona SB 1062], but the gay community decided to make this their measure," Bachmann said in a radio interview last week. "And the thing that I think is getting a little tiresome is the gay community have so bullied the American people and they have so intimidated politicians that politicians fear them and they think they get to dictate the agenda everywhere. Well, not with the Constitution you don't."

Rolling Stones guitarist and sometime leather bag-impersonator Keith Richards is gearing up to write a book for children.

[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. made the universal symbol for "I will cut you" today in reference to Rep. Darrell Issa, who launched a Congressional catfight last week when he cut the off the microphone of a congressman who accused him of being on an IRS witch hunt. Image by J. Scott Applewhite via AP.]