George W. Bush, the 43rd president, pedaled off on the second day of a three-day mountain-bike ride in Texas with 16 wounded veterans to honor their service and celebrate their recoveries.
Whitney Lee, 36, a transgender prison inmate in Ohio who complained about losing her breast tissue and growing facial hair after her hormone treatments were stopped, prevailed in federal court after a judge ruled she must receive the treatments for the rest of her time behind bars for forgery and theft.
Calvin Ray Jr., 39, was charged with killing his elderly parents with a samurai sword, leaving behind a scene in their Atlanta-area home that a police commander described as “horrific.”
Keith Watkins, a federal judge in Alabama, refused the state’s request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a state immigration law that requires state officials to post on the Internet the names of people living in the state illegally who have run-ins with the law.
Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Atlanta, who opposed a new law spearheaded by Georgia Republicans that will allow people to carry guns in churches if the congregation permits it, said he will generally ban weapons at Catholic institutions.
Frank Phillips, 47, who was fired as a deputy in Knox County, Tenn., after the British Daily Mail published a photo that appears to show him choking a suspect, asked Sheriff Jimmy Jones to reconsider the firing.
Ephrian Myles, 47, who is accused of dousing his girlfriend’s dog with hot sauce, was sentenced in Sarasota, Fla., to a year in jail after pleading no contest to animal cruelty.
Malcolm Sidbury, 38, and Thomas Robbins, 57, were issued tickets by New York state police, who say Sidbury was high on drugs when he called 911 to report that his vehicle had been sideswiped by a vehicle driven by Robbins, who police say was operating a vehicle with a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit.
Naomi Gonzalez, a Democratic Texas state representative, was sentenced to 15 days in jail after pleading no contest to drunken driving regarding a 2013 traffic accident in Austin.
Jose Mujica, the president of Uruguay, told The Associated Press that his country’s legal marijuana market will be much more regulated than Colorado’s, where the state doesn’t track the drug once it’s sold.
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