• Rep. John Conyers, 84, a Michigan Democrat first elected to Congress in 1964, will challenge a decision by the Wayne County clerk, who ruled that Conyers, the longest-serving U.S. lawmaker running for re-election this year, doesn't have enough petition signatures to qualify for the Aug. 5 primary ballot.
• John Yelcick, 48, a Lancaster, Pa., doctor who pleaded guilty to abuse of a corpse and evidence tampering, was sentenced to 15 days in jail after telling investigators that he awoke last fall to find David Sellers, 45, with whom he'd had sex earlier that evening, dead, then loaded Sellers' body into Sellers' car and left the car in a parking lot about 30 miles away.
• Dallas Smallwood, 58, a trucker who is accused of escaping from a South Carolina jail nearly 40 years ago while serving time for grand larceny and receiving stolen goods, was captured in western Michigan living under the name Waylon Wilson, authorities said.
• Clay Aiken, 35, the former American Idol runner-up, eked out a Democratic congressional primary victory in North Carolina less than 24 hours after the sudden death of his opponent, former state Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco, 71, who died in a fall at his home.
• Jazmine McEnaney, 8, helped her mother, Krystle Garcia, deliver a baby boy, named Joseph James Snyder, while waiting for paramedics to arrive at their Tampa Bay-area home in Florida.
• Veronica Rodriguez of College Station, Texas, shocked and upset when she found a 12-foot African python crawling into the tub in her bathroom where she had earlier bathed her three pet guinea pigs, called authorities who corralled the reptile and later returned it to its owner.
• U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who is considering a run for president in 2016, said in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington that Congress should "secure retirement for 21st-century seniors" by raising the retirement age and letting many workers enroll in a federal savings plan.
• Israel Berrios, 58, a Roman Catholic priest and former school director, was arrested in Puerto Rico on charges including sexual trafficking of children in the first federal case of its kind in the U.S. territory.
• Bela Biszku, 92, Hungary's former communist-era interior minister, was sentenced to five years and six months in prison for war crimes related to reprisals against civilians after the anti-Soviet revolution of 1956.
A Section on 05/14/2014