At least one of the people involved but not criminally charged for their role in the politically motivated 2013 lane closures of the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey wants to keep a list of unindicted co-conspirators from becoming public. Someone included on the list that a judge has ordered… Read More

Scott Skiles has stepped down as coach of the Orlando Magic after just one year, the somewhat surprising decision coming about a month after the conclusion of a frustrating regular season. Skiles was 35-47 this season, his lone year leading the Magic — the team that he spent five seasons… Read More

Hunters soon could be chasing grizzly bears across the ridges of the Rocky Mountains, leaving three states to drum up plans to ensure the iconic species won’t be snuffed out soon after recovering from threats to their survival. The Obama administration in March proposed lifting protections for the more than… Read More

Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person, has died in New York at age 116. Robert Young, a senior consultant for the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, said Jones died Thursday night at a public housing facility for seniors in Brooklyn where she had lived for more than three decades…. Read More

Pope Francis said Thursday he is willing to create a commission to study whether women can be deacons in the Catholic Church, signaling openness to letting women serve in ordained ministry currently reserved to men. Francis agreed to a proposal to create an official study commission during a closed-door meeting… Read More

A decade-long social media campaign by the vigilant mother of a fatal car-to-car shooting victim helped lead to the arrest of the remaining suspect in the 2006 killing, California authorities said Wednesday. William Sotelo is behind bars in the city of Riverside after being arrested Friday in central Mexico, police… Read More

A Pennsylvania police officer is following in his retired father’s footsteps — all four of them. The New Castle News says a 3-year-old German shepherd named Ranger is picking up where his father, 11-year-old Jozek, left off. Ranger will be a K-9 officer with the police department in Ellwood City,… Read More

When parents tell Dr. Gregory Fox their boisterous child was stuck in a classroom all day, the Rhode Island pediatrician takes out his notepad and writes a doctor’s order to send to school. “Please do not take away this child’s recess,” Fox writes. So many kids are being deprived of… Read More

Authorities say three Good Samaritans helped save a woman’s life when they pulled her from a car just before it burst into flames on the side of a Minnesota highway. One of those three was Sean Kehren, a college student. Kehren tells the Star Tribune he was driving along Interstate… Read More

Movie theaters across the U.S. could be forced to adopt costly security measures — and ticket prices could rise significantly — if a jury finds a Colorado theater at fault in the 2012 shooting rampage that left 12 people dead, industry experts say. “I don’t think there’s anything more important… Read More