New Jersey legislators released more than 1,000 pages of documents that "may shed light on a bridge traffic jam apparently orchestrated by Republican Governor Chris Christie top aides to settle a political score," Reuters reported. The documents were made public "just says after New Jersey officials released emails that appeared to show the Republican governor staff's plotting a traffic jam in September, seemingly to retaliate against the Democratic mayor of Fort Leee because he had not endorsed Christie's re-election campaign,"

U.S. Army Sgt. Marquinta Jacobs, who pleaded guilty for the shooting death of 51-year-old Lloyd R. Gilbert at Fort Knox, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Friday. Jacobs had pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of premeditated murder and aggravated assault.

Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour said on Thursday that most of the statements made by Aurora gunman James Holmes to law enforcement about explosives inside his booby-trapped apartment without his lawyer present can be used at his impending trial