Sohail Mohammed, a New Jersey state judge, ruled that women in that state can prevent a baby’s father from being in the delivery room, citing privacy rights outlined in two federal abortion cases.
Jan Brewer, 69, the Republican governor of Arizona who vetoed a bill that would have allowed businesses in the state to refuse service to gays for religious reasons, said she would not run for re-election, ending speculation about her plans.
Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block a new law that bars the possession of high-capacity ammunition magazines in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Karen Hall, a judge in Huntsville, Ala., ruled that Shrie Michelle Richmond and Kirsten Allysse Richmond, two women legally married in Iowa, can’t divorce in Alabama, which doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages.
George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murder in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, calls himself a family man in a new video posted online by his divorce attorneys and discusses his portrayal in the media and his hope that people will come to think about him “the way I do with everyone else.”
Devyani Khobragade, an Indian diplomat whose arrest and strip search in New York spurred an international flap, had charges against her dismissed by a federal judge.
Tamira Mobley, 28, a self-described beautician from Wood-Ridge, N.J., was charged in Manhattan with second-degree manslaughter and first-degree assault, accused of injecting silicone into the buttocks of Tamara Blaine, 22, who later died after a seizure.
Afaa Michael Weaver, 62, a former Baltimore factory worker, won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book of verse The Government of Nature, Claremont Graduate University in Southern California announced.
Jared McKay, 29, appeared in federal court in Portland, Ore., accused of interfering with a United Airlines flight crew after the plane left Chicago by demanding a number of drinks, yelling profanities, taking over an attendant’s seat and emerging from the bathroom smelling of cigarette smoke.
Bill Clinton is wading into a U.S. House primary in Philadelphia and its suburbs to raise money for Marjorie Margolies, the mother-in law of Chelsea Clinton who is running for a seat two decades after she lost it.
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