Rep. Vance McAllister, the Louisiana Republican caught on camera kissing a married female aide, said in a statement that he has failed his family, let down his constituents and doesn’t intend to run for re-election this fall in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District.
Bob McDonnell, the Republican ex-governor of Virginia who is awaiting trial along with his wife, Maureen, on federal corruption charges, has a new job as a visiting professor at Liberty University, the school founded by the late Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell.
Maria Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova, who belong to a Russian punk band whose members have been arrested on several occasions for protesting against oppressive rule, will attend Monday’s PEN American Center Literary Gala in New York, joining authors Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and Robert Caro.
Max Clifford, 71, a celebrity publicist who has represented O.J. Simpson, David Beckham and Simon Cowell, was found guilty by a London jury of multiple counts of sexual assault dating back almost 50 years.
Eric Holder, the U.S. attorney general, said in a video message that the Justice Department plans to collect data on police stops, searches and arrests to study racial bias in law enforcement.
Megan Huntsman, 39, was charged in Utah with six counts of first-degree murder in the killing of her six babies over a decade but cannot face the death penalty if convicted because the deaths occurred before Utah made murder a capital offense if the victim is younger than 14.
J.D. Winteregg, 32, the Tea Party activist mounting a primary challenge against House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has lost his teaching job at a small Christian college in Cedarville over a racy Web video that parodied erectile dysfunction advertisements and went viral last week.
Eileen Battisti, a widow, lost in her bid to reverse the September 2011 sale of her home outside Aliquippa in western Pennsylvania after a judge in Beaver County ruled that she was given ample notice before her $280,000 house was sold at a tax auction over $6.30 in unpaid interest.
Gary Deming, 34, of Cranston, R.I., was arrested on robbery charges, accused of wielding a potato disguised as a gun during robbery attempts last week at a convenience store and a dry cleaner.
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