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England and stymied recovery efforts from Superstorm Sandy as additional storm-weakened trees snapped and more power lines came down.
• Hundreds of thousands of utility customers, mostly in New York and New Jersey, have been left still waiting for their electricity to come back on -- and some are losing patience, demanding investigations of utilities they say aren't working fast enough.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seven members of the secretive Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to get Osama bin Laden, have been punished for disclosing classified information, senior Navy officials said Thursday.
• Four other SEALs are under investigation for similar alleged violations, one official said.
• The SEALs are alleged to have divulged classified information to the maker of a video game called "Medal of Honor: Warfighter."
• Each of the seven received a punitive letter of reprimand and a partial forfeiture of pay for two months. Those actions generally hinder a military member's career.
• The deputy commander of Naval Special Warfare Command, Rear Adm. Garry Bonelli, issued a statement acknowledging that nonjudicial punishments had been handed out for misconduct, but he did not offer any details.
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• TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- The pain was palpable, measured in silent stares in the courtroom between an emotionless murderer and wounded former congresswoman who looked her attempted killer in the eyes for the first time since he shot her in the head.
• Gabrielle Giffords limped to the podium Thursday, her astronaut husband by her side, inside a packed Tucson courtroom before a judge ordered Jared Lee Loughner to spend the rest of his life in prison.
• It was the first time since the January 2011 shooting rampage that his victims would get a chance to speak their minds directly to him. Loughner sat silent, but appeared to absorb every word, his blank gaze fixed on each victim as they scolded

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