Nydia Velázquez, the first Puerto Rican woman to serve in Congress, announced in a statement that she will retire after serving more than 30 years as a U.S. representative for New York, noting that "the time is right for me to move on and for a new generation of leaders to step forward."

Curt Andersen, who's accused of killing a house cleaner who showed up at his Whitestown, Ind., home by mistake, was granted a $25,000 pretrial bail and was ordered by a judge to surrender his passport, according to online court records.

Lawrence Reed, 50, was on court-ordered electronic monitoring in an unrelated battery case when he reportedly doused a 26-year-old woman in gasoline and set her on fire in a Chicago commuter train, federal prosecutors said.

Jeff Van Drew, a Republican U.S. representative

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