Senior members of the Obama Administration's Treasury Department were made aware that investigators were looking into complaints from Tea Party groups that they were being harassed by the IRS in June 2012, revealing that the probe was being conducted during the presidential campaign.
Democratic New York City Assemblyman Vito Lopez has announced that he will resign at the end of the legislative session in June, amid a sexual harassment scandal. Lopez, who denies harassing his underlings, said he was stepping down in order to run for City Council in November.
Philadelphia police officer Richard DeCoatsworth, who was once hailed as a hero and saluted by President Obama, has been arrested and is in police custody after he allegedly held two women captive in his home.
An inmate at a Wisconsin jail knocked out a female guard with one punch, and it was caught by surveillance cameras. The March 27 fight erupted as three corrections officers gathered lunch trays and another entered the room.
