In the news
Pope Francis celebrated the first-ever airborne papal wedding on a flight from Santiago, Chile, marrying Paula Podest, 39, and Carlos Ciuffardi, 41, two flight attendants who were married in a 2010 civil service but were unable to follow up with a church ceremony.
John Kavanagh, an Arizona state senator, wants to fine drivers $100 if they are caught with animals in their laps while behind the wheel, introducing legislation similar to laws in Hawaii and New Jersey.
Chris Christie, two days after leaving office as New Jersey’s governor, tried to use the special security access for dignitaries at Newark Liberty Airport but was instead directed to the regular screening line used by all other passengers, authorities said.
Santana Lindsey, 20, of Deltona Beach, Fla., caught on security video having a 6-year-old boy get out of her car to steal a package from a front porch, was charged with child neglect and other counts, sheriff’s deputies said.
Brandon Presley, a Mississippi public service commissioner and a distant cousin of Elvis Presley, said he won’t run as a Democrat to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker because campaigning would interfere with his work on issues such as expanding high-speed Internet access to rural areas.
J.J. Barazandeh, a police corporal in Durham, N.C., saw two women standing waist-deep in an icy creek clinging to the door jamb of a fully submerged car and jumped into the water to guide the women to safety.
Sergei Morozov, governor of Russia’s Ulyanovsk region, is demanding an investigation after a dozen male cadet pilots at a flight school were recorded wearing boxer shorts, boots, chest straps and cadet caps as they thrust their hips and danced in a rendition of Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction music video.
James Krey, 40, a police officer in Davie, Fla., was convicted of extortion for threatening to send nude photos and a sex video of his former girlfriend, who is also an officer, to their colleagues on the police force unless she resigned, prosecutors said.
Kay Taylor, a spokesman for a hospital in Kirkland, Wash., said a man who prompted a hospital-wide lockdown when he was spotted carrying what appeared to be a rifle immediately contacted security officers to let them know it was an umbrella with a handle shaped like a sword hilt.