Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, said he will not run again in 2016 because, "I think our best prospects of getting back the White House are with someone who has not run twice before as I have."
James Packer, one of Australia's richest businessmen, and his friend David Gyngell, a top television executive, were fined almost $500 each after a street fight between the two, which Gyngell said started because he went to Packer's beachside apartment in Sydney "in an angry mood."
Debra Stemmler, 53, filed a class-action lawsuit against the Pittsburgh Parking Authority, saying its new electronic parking meters are too tall to reach from a wheelchair and do not comply with federal disability access regulations.
John Hutchins, an ex-employee at a central Kentucky abbey run by an order of Catholic monks, was indicted on charges that he stole more than $1 million from the institution.
Timothy Geithner, the U.S. Treasury secretary from 2009-13, says in a new memoir that he considered stepping down from the post in 2010 after the financial crisis and suggested then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as a possible successor.
Neal Curtis Zumberge, 57, a suburban Minneapolis man who had a long-running dispute with two neighbors over their feeding of deer, is accused of opening fire on the couple and killing one of them hours after his son, Jacob Zumberge, 23, was arrested on suspicion of threatening to burn down their house.
Angus Watson, an Australian video journalist who is an intern with the Democratic Voice of Burma, was deported for filming a press freedom rally without a proper visa, said a presidential spokesman, who also accused Watson of taking part in the protest.
William Baer, a New Hampshire man who objected to a sexually explicit passage in a book read by his daughter's high school English class, was charged with disorderly conduct after he exceeded speaking time at a Gilford School Board meeting and challenged the board to arrest him.
John Robert Jordan, 47, of Lodi, N.J., was charged, accused of fatally stabbing his 39-year-old estranged wife, Tracy Jordan, then fleeing with their two young sons to South Carolina, where he was captured and the boys were found safe after a five-state AMBER Alert, authorities said.
A Section on 05/11/2014