Incoming Rutgers athletic director Julie Hermann had been involved in a discrimination lawsuit while serving as an administrator at Louisville Unviersity, the Associated Press reported. The lawsuit involved an assistant track coach who said she had been fired after complaining to human resources.
U.S. Representative Michelle Bachmann, leader of the Tea Party movement, announced that she will not seek re-election, and will retire from the House of Representatives.
Traces of DNA on an orange juice bottle and a surveillance of a man praying in a mall led to the arrest on Wednesday of a young suspect accused of stabbing a French soldier who was patrolling a crowded area outside Paris.
Alexander Michael Herrera, the Alaska Airlines passenger accused of trying to open an emergency exit during a flight from Anchorage en route to Portland, told investigators that he had not been taken his medicine, and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
