Leland Yee, 65, a Democratic California state senator who was lauded for his efforts to make government more transparent and wrote gun-control legislation, was arrested and accused of conspiracy to deal firearms.
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, the German bishop of Limburg, whose extravagant spending on renovations for his residence angered his congregation and ran afoul of the pontiff’s message of humility and modesty.
John Koskinen, the head of the Internal Revenue Service, told House Republicans that it would take years to provide all the documents subpoenaed in their probe of the agency’s handling of Tea Party groups’ applications for tax-exempt status.
Universal K. Allah, 36, pleaded innocent to robbery charges in the theft of a $5 million Stradivarius violin in Milwaukee.
Clayton Hee, a key Democratic state lawmaker in Hawaii who is considering an anti-prostitution bill, said he and Honolulu police have agreed to get rid of a longtime exemption that allowed officers to have sex with prostitutes.
Ada Conde, a Puerto Rico lawyer who married Ivonne Alvarez, her longtime partner, on the U.S. mainland, filed a federal lawsuit seeking to have their marriage recognized in her home territory.
Shaela Evenson, a Montana Catholic-school teacher who was fired for being pregnant and unmarried and who gave birth March 7 to Brody Tobin Evenson, the first child for Evenson and her partner, Marilyn Tobin, filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
David Hay, the bee master at the 45th annual U-T San Diego Countywide Spelling Bee, had to call a recess halfway through the two-student final round after the 92 middle-schoolers competing exhausted his supply of 500 words.
Bob McDonnell, the Republican ex-governor of Virginia, and wife Maureen want separate trials in their public-corruption case in which they are charged with accepting more than $165,000 in gifts and loans in exchange for helping promote dietary supplements.
Elizabeth Brinton, a mother of two in Alabama who held a Girl Scout cookie sales record for decades, selling 18,000 boxes, said she has no problem giving up her crown to Katie Francis, an Oklahoma sixth-grader who broke her record.
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