World: Police arrested two of the factory owners in the Bangladesh building collapse. About 340 people are dead and 75 have been pulled from the rubble that housed five factories. Authorities ordered the arrest of the building and garment factory owners who had ignored a warning to evacuate when the building showed signs of structural failure.

National: Congress quickly approved a plan to keep air traffic controllers on the job and flights on schedule. Under pressure from angry constituents and airline companies, they showed themselves capable of swift action. Then, exhausted by actually doing something, they left Washington for weeklong recess.

• The Mormon Church has approved a proposal to allow openly gay boys to join the Boy Scouts. Religious organizations have a say in the matter because the scouts often use churches for meeting halls. Under the plan, the Scouts would still ban gay adult leaders. The proposal still has to be approved at the national meeting where delegates might face opposition from conservative Christian church leaders.
• Land surveyors inspecting a lower Manhattan building found a five-foot piece of landing gear from one of the jets that hit the World Trade Center on 9/11. The part, clearly stamped “Boeing” was found wedged between two buildings.

Data Dump: Investigators are searching a New Bedford area landfill for a laptop computer that may have belonged to the Tsarnaev brothers. The body of Tamarlan Tsarnaev remains unclaimed at a Boston morgue. The NY Times reports that the two men returned to their normal lives within hours of the Boston Marathon bombings; the younger brother to his college dormitory, the older to the grocery store with his wife.

The Obit Page: Country singer George Jones, whose own life was mined for the lyrics of heartbreak, has died at age 81. Starting in the 1950s Jones broke out with a song called “White Lightning”. He was a master of the country form with titles like “If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will)” and “She Thinks I Still Care”. Jones had trouble with drink and cocaine and was married four times, once to fellow star Tammy Wynette.

Pigskin Report: Veteran Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers is reported to have signed a 5-year, $110 million dollar contract that pays him $40 million in the first year. It’s the biggest salary in the history of the NFL. Meanwhile Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o, the one who never got sacked by his fictional girlfriend, was picked by the San Diego Chargers in the second round of the NFL draft.

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