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Former Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., announced that he won’t run in a special Senate election for the seat being vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry, adding, “I was not at all certain that a third Senate campaign in less than four years, and the prospect of returning to a Congress even more partisan than the one I left, was really the best way for me to continue in public service at this time.”

Mark Sullivan, director of the Secret Service since 2006, is retiring, effective Feb. 22, after 30 years with the agency.

Timothy Tyler Andrew Walker, a former NASCAR driver who was suspended in 2007 for violating the association’s drug policy, led authorities on a chase on Interstate 15 that began in Nevada, crossed briefly into Arizona and continued into Utah, where he was ultimately arrested, police said.

Athia Hardt, a publicist for the Phoenix law firm Osborn Maledon, said Mark Hummels, 43, a lawyer for the firm who was one of three people shot in an office on Wednesday, has died of his injuries.

April Casburn, head of Scotland Yard’s counter terrorism squad, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for illegally attempting to sell information to a British tabloid journalist in 2010.

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., used his “personal account” to reimburse eye doctor Salomon Melgen $58,500 earlier this year for the full cost of two trips Menendez took on the donor’s plane to the Dominican Republic in 2010, said spokesman Tricia Enright, adding that a third trip was a campaign fundraising journey and was reported as a $5,400 expenditure by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which Menendez chaired.

Mel Greig and Michael Christian, two Australian disc jockeys who called a London hospital impersonating members of the royal family as a hoax three days before a nurse’s suicide, will not face any charges, British prosecutors said.

Paul McElroy, spokesman for Alaska Airlines, said a pilot who lost consciousness during a Seattle-bound flight, prompting an emergency landing in Portland, Ore., by the co-pilot, was suffering from food poisoning or a stomach virus.

Matthew Dollarhide, 19, of Orange City, Fla., was arrested on a drug paraphernalia charge after his cell phone pocket-dialed 911, enabling dispatchers to listen to Dollarhide and another man talk about selling drugs, police said.

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