Rep. Mike Rogers, 50, a Michigan Republican who has served in Congress since 2001 and is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, won’t seek re-election in November and will host a nationally syndicated radio show on Cumulus Media starting in January.
Mark Dayton, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, denied a mother’s claim that he had suggested she buy marijuana from the street to treat her 2-year-old son’s intractable epilepsy because the drug is not legal as medicine in the state.
Jay Paterno, a Democrat and the son of the late Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno, dropped out of the race for Pennsylvania lieutenant governor and said trying to overcome challenges to his nomination petition would be a long process that would distract the campaign.
Jessie Baskin, 22, a former Florida A&M University band member, became the first person to be sentenced to jail time for his role in the hazing death of 26-year-old drum major Robert Champion in November 2011, receiving 51 weeks in county jail, five years of probation and 300 hours of community service.
Nailah Winkfield, the mother of Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old Oakland, Calif., girl declared brain-dead by multiple neurologists more than three months ago, insisted in an interview with KNTV-TV that her daughter was “asleep” and “blossoming into a teenager.”
Hans Loudermilk, 67, of Oceanside, Calif., was taken into custody after federal officials say he groped and sexually propositioned a teenage girl on a flight from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City.
Amanda Hein, 27, an Allentown, Pa., woman accused of giving birth in August in a bathroom at an eastern Pennsylvania sports bar, wrapping the newborn in a plastic bag and hiding him in a toilet tank, pleaded guilty to a general murder charge.
Bill Kramer, 49, the former Wisconsin Assembly majority leader, was charged by prosecutors with sexually assaulting a political aide three years ago after a Republican mixer and faces up to $200,000 in fines and 80 years in prison.
Al Cowger Jr. and Tony Wesley Jr., a same-sex married couple who had trouble getting family coverage under the federal health-care law, dropped their lawsuit seeking to overturn Ohio’s gay-marriage ban after they were able to get a family plan through the federal insurance marketplace.
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