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Former Major League Baseball power slugger and present hitting Los Angeles Dodgers hitting coach Mark McGwire sounded regretful and somber after the league suspended 13 players, including 3-time MVP Alex Rodriguez, for using performance-enhancing drugs.

During his opening statements beginning his court martial trial on Tuesday, suspect Major Nidal Hasan who faces the death penalty for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, told jurors that "the evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter." His opening statements lasted less than two minutes, adding that, "witnesses will testify that war is an ugly thing. Death, destruction and devastation are felt from both sides, from friend and foe. Evidence from this trial will only show one side. I was on the wrong side, but I switched sides."

Guilfort Florida police arrested three 15-year-old boys with aggravated battery charges for beating up a younger male on a Lealman Intermediate School summer school bus.