SAN DIEGO — A nearly half-mile-long tunnel leading from Mexico to San Diego was discovered and more than a ton of cocaine and seven tons of marijuana was seized, the U.S. attorney’s office said Wednesday. Six people were arrested.

The tunnel extends 300 yards from a house in Tijuana, Mexico, to the border and then 500 yards on the U.S. side to a fenced lot in a San Diego industrial area. The tunnel was equipped with a rail system, ventilation, lights and a large elevator, officials said. The exit on the U.S. side is about 3 feet wide and was covered by a trash bin. The six people arrested in San Diego on Friday were charged with crimes involving drugs and construction of the tunnel.(Nypost.com)…[+]

Outed cheaters seeking legal revenge against Ashley Madison – including at least one “Jane Doe” from New York – will have to reveal their real names if they want to sue the infidelity site, a Missouri judge recently ruled. The 42 plaintiffs whose confidential information was divulged as a result of a massive data breach of the infidelity site last year wanted to use pseudonyms in their litigation against Ashley Madison.(Nypost.com)…[+]

he must have been high while he was shaving. A Florida man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly possessing marijuana with the intent to sell. Kevin Gibson, 58, had the drug on him one night before the national day connected with smoking weed — 4/20.(Nydaiynews.com)...[+]

A 6-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital Wednesday after he was struck by a car in Brooklyn, officials said. A group of young children watched the crash as it happened. A black Lexus sedan hit the boy on 54th St. near 13th Ave. in Borough Park about 1:30 p.m., officials said. The driver of the Lexus remained at the scene.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew on Wednesday announced the most sweeping and historically symbolic makeover of American currency in a century, proposing to replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman, the former slave and abolitionist, and to add women and civil rights leaders to the $5 and $10 notes.

Mr. Lew may have reneged on a commitment he made last year to make a woman the face of the $10 bill, opting instead to keep Alexander Hamilton, to the delight of a fan base swollen with enthusiasm over a Broadway rap musical based on the life of the first Treasury secretary.(nytimes.com)…[+]

BRASÍLIA — To those unfamiliar with the cacophonous tenor of Brazilian politics, the legislative session on Sunday night that approved the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff could have been mistaken for a soccer match. As the outcome of the vote became clear, deputies in the lower house of Congress hooted, pumped their fists and hoisted onto their shoulders the man who had cast the pivotal vote. One lawmaker, wearing a flag as a cape, fired a gun that shot confetti.(nytimes.com)…[+]

In a Brooklyn courtroom packed with the relatives of his victim, Peter Liang, the former New York City police officer who fatally shot Akai Gurley while on patrol in a housing project stairwell, was sentenced on Tuesday to five years of probation, escaping a prison term in the divisive police misconduct case.

The sentencing in State Supreme Court put to rest a politically contentious case that highlighted concerns over police accountability. It began in November 2014 when Mr. Gurley was hit by a ricocheting bullet in a dark stairwell of the Louis H. Pink Houses in the East New York neighborhood, joining a list of other unarmed black men who had been killed by the police around the country.(Nytimes.com)…[+]

A Texas man used his monster truck to help a woman from the floodwaters around her home in what one local called a “redneck rescue” Monday morning.

Flooding in Houston has killed at least eight people after a series of storms, and the dangerous waters have also submerged parts of North Texas. A woman in Parker County, about 35 miles west of Fort Worth, found herself stranded in her house until her neighbor Cole Geeo drove his 8-foot-tall truck to her home through the shallow but rising water, WFAA-TV reported. Geeo then brought Deborah Wright to safer ground.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday will hear a major challenge to President Obama’s plan to shield millions of immigrants from deportation and allow them to work. The case, brought by 26 states, may produce a significant ruling on presidential power and immigration policy in the midst of a presidential campaign in which both issues have been front and center.

The case, United States v. Texas, No. 15-674, is being heard by an eight-member court, and the absence of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February, has altered the judicial dynamic. A 4-4 deadlock is now a live possibility, one that would leave in place an appeals court ruling that blocks the plan without setting a Supreme Court precedent.(nytimes.com)…[+]

The Walt Disney Co.’s “The Jungle Book” opened with $103.6 million in North America, making it one of the biggest April debuts at the box office. Jon Favreau’s update of Disney’s 1967 animated version of the Rudyard Kipling book is just the company’s latest success in turning its classic cartoons into live-action remakes. But “The Jungle Book” seems to have impressed both critics and moviegoers even more than previous popular examples — “Cinderella,” ”Alice in Wonderland” and ”Maleficent.(Nydailynews.com)…[+]