The White House was on the defensive on Wednesday with news of the release of Robert Gates' In Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War, in which the former Secretary of Defense offered a critique of President Barack Obama as a somewhat indecisive leader while also knocking Vice President Joe Biden
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said that he was "deeply saddened and outraged" by newly released documents "linking a senior member of his staff to the closure of lanes on a major bridge in September - shutdowns that caused massive traffic jams, and sparked allegations that the closures were the result of political retribution."
Daisy Coleman, the northwest Missouri 16-year-old, whose alleged 2012 sexual assault in Maryville, garnered significant media attention, was recovering Tuesday from a suicide attempt, as reported by The Kansas City Star. Coleman was being treated at a Kansas City psychiatric hospital after ingesting unidentified pills on Sunday evening.
A search warrant filed in Connecticut indicated that Bristol police believe that former New England Patriot was in an SUV when someone inside shot two people to death in Boston in 2012.
