U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, a six-term Alabama Republican, said he is resigning from Congress, effective in August, to become vice chancellor of government relations and economic development at the University of Alabama System.
Lillie Smith, an 84-year old Albuquerque, N.M., woman who uses an oxygen tank, was indicted on drug-trafficking charges over a 2011 search of her apartment during which authorities said they found cocaine and marijuana.
Rep. Kate Brophy McGee, a Republican member of the Arizona House, said she received an obscene and threatening voice mail at her office because she supports expanding Medicaid and urged fellow members to tell constituents to be civil.
Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate, experienced a setback in Maine as the state’s highest court dismissed his lawsuit against Democrats he had accused of trying to keep him off ballots in Maine and other states during his failed presidential run in 2004.
Stephen David Urquidez, a 51-year-old who Los Angeles County authorities said had claimed to be a member of the Walt Disney family and had given away invalid Disneyland passes, was arrested on suspicion of burglary and having a driver’s license with a forged state seal.
U.S. Rep. Scott Des-Jarlais, a Republican and licensed physician, was reprimanded and fined by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners for having sex with patients before he was elected to Congress, according to documents.
Charles Ramsey, who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for years in a Cleveland house, will get free McDonald’s food for the next year.
Rob Ford, the Toronto mayor caught up in a scandal over a video purportedly showing him smoking crack cocaine, fired his chief of staff, with a statement from the mayor’s office giving no reason for Mark Towhey’s dismissal.
Naim Rasool Muhammad, a 34-year-old father who told two of his sons to pretend they were swimming as he drowned them in a Dallas-area creek, was sentenced to death after being found guilty of capital murder.
John Kerry, the U.S. secretary of state, took a break from diplomacy in the West Bank when he stopped for a meat sandwich known as a shawarma and said, “I want everything. I’m all in,” when asked what toppings he wanted.
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