Beau Biden, 45, Vice President Joe Biden’s eldest son, said he has decided not to seek re-election as Delaware attorney general this year and instead plans to run for governor in 2016.
Kassim Alhimidi, 49, an Iraqi immigrant, was convicted in Southern California of bludgeoning Shaima Alawadi, his 32-year-old wife, to death in 2012 in a case that was initially considered a hate crime.
Mohammad Hassan Khalid, 21, a Pakistani who had earned a scholarship to Johns Hopkins University, then helped solicit support for jihadists he met online and was tied to a Pennsylvania woman who called herself “Jihad Jane,” was sentenced in Philadelphia to five years in prison.
Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 disabled and elderly people on Holy Thursday in a pre-Easter ritual designed to show his willingness to serve others like a “slave.”
Christopher Lewis, a North Charleston, S.C., construction worker who was ticketed and faced a $525 fine for refilling his 89-cent drink in the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital cafeteria without paying for it - something the facility considers shoplifting - will be let off with a warning, officials at the Ralph C. Johnson Center said.
Mitchell Casado, a Canadian flight-simulator instructor who wore jeans and plaid shirts for his appearances on CNN during its coverage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, was fired by his employer, uFly, which said he showed up late to his regular job and “shamed Canadians” by dressing like a teenager.
Terri Frana, 45, a Florida woman who was attacked by a bear in her yard, said on Orlando television that she doesn’t want bears killed for doing what wild animals do.
Donna Williams, the principal at Zeman Elementary in Lincoln, Neb., has apologized to angry parents for sending fifth-grade students home with fliers that advised them to tell an adult about bullying “only when a real injury or crime (theft of something valuable) has occurred.”
Francis Schmidt, an art professor at Bergen Community College in New Jersey, was suspended without pay after posting a picture online of his 7-year-old daughter wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “I will take what is mine with fire & blood” from the HBO show Game of Thrones and said officials were concerned that the message was violent and could prompt a school shooting.
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