Cari Searcy and Kimberly McKeand filed a federal lawsuit in Alabama seeking to force the state to recognize their 2008 marriage in California so they can both be legal parents to their 8-year-old son.
Charlie Crist, who is running as a Democrat for his former job as Florida governor, said during a Fusion interview that racial bias against President Barack Obama was a "big reason" for his decision to leave the GOP.
Tim Fox, Montana's attorney general and a Republican, said he supports keeping a 6-foot-tall statue of Jesus next to a Whitefish ski hill as a group of atheists and agnostics seek to remove it from U.S. Forest Service land.
U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford, a freshman Democrat whose Nevada district includes the ranch of Cliven Bundy, a cattleman battling the federal government over grazing rights on public land, told the Los Angeles Times that he wants Bundy's armed supporters to leave.
Robert Runcie, the superintendent of Broward Schools in Florida, publicly apologized to fifth-grader Giovanni Rubeo, who says his teacher wouldn't let him read his Bible in class, with the superintendent saying "this is a situation that should've been handled differently."
David Montenegro, a New Hampshire man who was blocked from getting a vanity license plate reading "COPSLIE" to protest what he calls government corruption, found an ally in the state Supreme Court, which ruled that the law used to deny him the plate was unconstitutionally vague and in violation of free-speech rights.
Leo Sharp, an Indiana veteran of World War II, was sentenced on his 90th birthday Wednesday to three years in federal prison for hauling more than a ton of cocaine for a Mexican drug organization to Michigan.
Robert Short, 54, was arrested in Bend, Ore., on theft and robbery charges, accused of demanding money from a bank teller with a note written on the back of a grocery receipt that contained food-stamp account information that investigators used to track down their suspect.
Michel Escoto, 42, was sentenced in Miami to life in prison for killing Wendy Trapaga, 21, his wife of four days, in October 2002 to collect a $1 million life insurance policy.
Silvan Shalom, a senior Israeli official and presidential hopeful, no longer faces a sex-crimes investigation involving allegations by a former secretary after the justice ministry cited a 10-year statute of limitations in ending the inquiry.
A Section on 05/08/2014