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• ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The second juror to speak publicly told ABC News in an interview made available Thursday that she feels George Zimmerman got away with murder for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, but that there wasn't enough evidence at trial to convict him under Florida law.
• Juror B29 told Robin Roberts that she favored convicting Zimmerman of second-degree murder when deliberations began by the six-member, all-women jury.
• "I was the juror that was going to give them a hung jury," she said. "I fought to the end."
• But by the second day of deliberating, she realized there wasn't enough proof to convict the 29-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer of a crime.
• "George Zimmerman got away with murder, but you can't get away from God," she said. "And at the end of the day, he's going to have a lot of questions and answers he has to deal with."
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Former constituents react with disbelief, annoyance over new Weiner sexting admission
• NEW YORK (AP) -- Retired tax auditor Jerry Stern was sitting in the front row with reporters the day in June 2011 when then-U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner -- reading a short statement and ignoring the shouts from hecklers -- announced his retirement from Congress at a senior center after some of his sexually-charged photographs and emails with women became public.
• "I thought then that was the right thing to do," said Stern, 85, outside the Council Center for Senior Citizens in Brooklyn Thursday, where members have spent the week kvetching about their former congressman's racy online behavior.
• Two years after resigning, the married Democrat is a mayoral candidate -- and finds himself yet again in a growing sexting scandal. He said Thursday he'd traded sexually explicit messages with as many as three women since resigning, bringing the total number of women with whom he had exchanged illicit messages to six to 10.
• "I think he's making a big mistake" by staying in New York City's mayoral race, (Continued on page 25)
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