Judge: List of names should be public

Judge: List of names should be public

TRENTON, N.J.

A list of unindicted co-conspirators should be made public in the case of two former allies of Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s charged in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal, a judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton said it’s in the public’s interest for the government to disclose the list, which has not yet been made public.

Little is known about who or how many people are on the list, but the judge’s order notes that a U.S. attorney has limited the list to those “whom the Government has sufficient evidence to designate as having joined the conspiracy.”

Panama Papers law firm threatens action

PANAMA CITY

The Panamanian law firm at the center of the huge trove of leaked documents detailing offshore financial dealings says it will take legal action against an international consortium of journalists.

The Mossack Fonseca firm said in statement Tuesday that it had asked the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to stop publishing information from the documents that it has said were obtained through a computer hack.

Counseling group cancels over law

NASHVILLE, Tenn.

The American Counseling Association announced Tuesday that it is canceling plans to have a conference in Nashville next year to protest a Tennessee law letting therapists decline to see patients based on religious values and personal principles.

The ACA, which has condemned Tennessee’s new law as a “hate bill” that discriminates against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, has called the legislation an unprecedented attack on its profession.

3 dead in stabbings

TAUNTON, Mass.

Three people were killed and two others injured Tuesday in attacks at a shopping mall and a home in Massachusetts, and the suspect was one of the dead, authorities said.

State police said a man stabbed two people at a Taunton home, then crashed a car through the front of a Macy’s store at the Silver City Galleria and stabbed two other people at the mall. An off-duty law- enforcement officer fatally shot the suspect. Witnesses described a chaotic and violent scene and said the mall was evacuated.

Cadets won’t be punished for photo

NEW YORK

Sixteen black West Point cadets who posed with raised fists for a pre-graduation picture that sparked debates on race and proper behavior in uniform won’t be punished for the gesture, the U.S. Military Academy said Tuesday.

The decision, less than two weeks before the 16 female seniors are poised to graduate, found they didn’t violate military rules limiting political activity.

Storms move east

OKLAHOMA CITY

Bad weather moved into the Ohio River Valley on Tuesday after a series of powerful storms hit the Plains, including tornadoes that destroyed homes and left two people dead in Oklahoma.

National Weather Service meteorologist Rick Smith said Tuesday’s risk was not as great as it was Monday, when about two dozen tornadoes were reported across six states. But communities along the Ohio River saw strong storms, and tornadoes were reported in southern Illinois and western Kentucky.

Kentucky State Police said in a statement that at least 10 people were hurt and an unknown number of homes and businesses were damaged when a tornado tracked across Graves County in the western part of the state Tuesday afternoon.

Associated Press