Gabrielle Giffords, the former U.S. representative from Arizona severely injured in a 2011 mass shooting, marked the three-year anniversary of the shooting by skydiving between Phoenix and Tucson, landing without injury.
Brad Davis, 33, was booked into the Pottawatomie County jail in Oklahoma in the death of his stepfather, Denver St. Clair, accused of killing him over the holidays by yanking St. Clair’s underwear up his back and over his head so that the undergarment’s waistband was around his neck.
Gov. Robert Bentley of Alabama said his private home in Tuscaloosa has an estimated $50,000 in damage after a water pipe froze and burst in the attic during the cold weather.
Leslie Combs, a Democratic state lawmaker in Kentucky, said she accidentally fired a gun in her Capitol Annex office on the first day of the legislative session, prompting a state police investigation.
Ryan Bensen, 40, and Erica Manley, 37, were arrested after a waitress at the Twisted Fish restaurant in Seaside, Ore., called police, saying the pair left an envelope full of methamphetamine while paying for their drinks.
U.S. Democratic Reps. Carolyn McCarthy, 70, of New York and Mike McIntyre, 57, of North Carolina, both nine-termers, plan to retire at their terms’ end.
Tim Haries, 42, was found guilty of spraying purple paint across a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey and told jurors he defaced the portrait with the word “help” to highlight the “social catastrophe” of fathers being denied access to their children.
Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin, the commander whose decision to overturn a sexual-assault conviction forced changes in military law, said he is retiring after 37 years in the Air Force.
Nathan Campbell, 38, the driver of a car that plowed through crowds on the Venice Beach boardwalk, must stand trial on charges of murder in the death of a newlywed woman and assault with a deadly weapon regarding injuries to more than a dozen other people, a Los Angeles judge ruled.
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