An Orthodox Jewish woman in New York is seeking spousal support for life from her husband if he continues to refuse to give her a "get"—a document allowing her to divorce under religious law. So reports The New York Post.

A judge in the United Kingdom handed down a seven-year jail sentence to a man who killed his friend by shooting him in the chest in an effort to test his supposedly bullet proof vest. So reports the Guardian.

New York will no longer subject inmates who are 21 and younger to solitary confinement, a punishment that research has shown to be particularly damaging to teenagers and young adults because of their still-developing brains. So reports The New York Times.

State and local police may no longer use a Justice Department policy that allowed them to seize almost $2.5 billion in property without search warrants or indictments since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. So reports The Washington Post.