• Robert McDonnell, the Republican former Virginia governor, can remain free while appealing his conviction for public corruption and a two-year prison sentence he received earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond ruled.
• The Rev. Libby Lane was consecrated as the first female bishop in the Church of England, ending the male monopoly in the leadership of the 500-year-old institution.
• Terry Branstad, 68, the Republican governor of Iowa, spent the night at a hospital with flu-like symptoms after being rushed there when he fell ill at an event, a spokesman said.
• George O'Toole Jr., the judge in the federal death-penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, said that he's not discouraged by the slow pace of jury selection and that the parties in the case are "making good progress."
• Ken Paxton, Texas' new attorney general, announced that Nevada and Tennessee have officially become part of the coalition of states suing over the Obama administration's executive action on immigration, meaning 26 states are now part of the case.
• Harry Reid, 75, the Senate Democratic leader, is alert and in good spirits after successful surgery in Washington to remove a blood clot from his right eye caused by an exercising accident, his office said.
• Terry Mahan, a police officer in Tallahassee, Fla., is being suspended without pay for one month for firing his stun gun last fall into the back of 61-year-old Viola Young, who had faced charges of resisting and obstructing an officer without violence before prosecutors dropped the charges.
• Amanda Sorensen, 24, a Southern California woman who killed her boyfriend's 2-year-old daughter by giving her chili powder as a form of discipline, was sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison.
• Erik Burris, a former U.S. Army prosecutor who handled sexual-assault cases, was found guilty on rape charges after a six-day court-martial at Fort Bragg, N.C., and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, dismissed from the service and ordered to forfeit all pay.
• Rick Lindholm, scoutmaster of a Montana Boy Scout troop, said thieves who stole a cargo trailer and camping gear from a church parking lot earlier this month had a change of heart and left a handwritten note on the windshield of a car in the lot indicating the location of stolen items, the greater part of which police recovered.
A Section on 01/27/2015