Information is still coming in on this, but overnight, an FBI agent reportedly killed a Florida man connected to the Boston bombing suspects.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) keeps spinning his vote against expanding background checks for gun purchases.

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne (R) pleads no contest in hit-and-run accident he caused while his alleged mistress was in the car with him.

Ex-Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who pleaded guilty to spending campaign cash on things like Michael Jackson and Van Halen memorabilia, is apparently a heck of a karaoke singer. He’s so good, in fact, that a congresswoman thinks it should be taken into consideration as part of Jackson’s sentencing.

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) was flirting with the fringe for a little bit here today. He offered an amendment dealing with guns onto a bill that, of all things, dealt with water resources. The amendment likely would have fueled a conspiracy theory that alleges the Obama administration has been buying up all the nation’s ammo to keep it out of the hands of gun-loving regular folk. But by early this afternoon, he apparently had second thoughts and yanked the amendment.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) seemed to be trying to fix his bleak approval numbers today when he told CNN that he was willing to reverse his vote against the Manchin-Toomey compromise that would have expanded background checks on gun purchases. The only catch, he said, was that some small changes had to be made to the measure.

Meet the man who appears to be the only novelist signing books at this weekend’s annual NRA convention in Houston. Hunter Walker talked to him. And guess what? The author thinks Obama/Cuomo/Bloomberg are this close to confiscating the nation’s guns.

In Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill banning cities and counties from destroying guns that have been turned over in buybacks.

Target No. 1 of the feared Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is one of the group’s former generals, who is now cooperating with prosecutors.