Mystery: A 33-year-old West Hollywood man has died of meningitis, raising alarms that a quick and deadly disease might be stalking gay men. Brett Shaad was described as fit and healthy only days before he died. At least 22 cases have been reported among gay men in New York since 2010, seven of whom have died this year. Bacterial meningitis is spread by intimate contact, like kissing, but is not quite as contagious as the common cold. It is treatable with antibiotics if caught early.

National: Inmates and guards clashed at Guantanamo prison while guards were moving inmates from communal living back to individual cells. Forty-three prisoners are on a hunger strike and they were moved after covering windows and surveillance cameras. The prison administration said guards fired “four less-than-lethal rounds”.

• Police in Texas are questioning a former Justice of the Peace in connection with the murder of two prosecutors and the wife of one of them. Eric L. Williams, 46, was convicted last year for stealing computer equipment from a county building. He lost his justice of the peace office and his license to practice law.
• President Obama handed over the microphone for his weekly radio address to Francine Wheeler, mother of six-year-old Ben, killed in the Newtown school massacre. Opening with, “As you’ve probably noticed, I’m not the President,” she made a plea for common sense gun regulation. She said, “Sometimes, I close my eyes and all I can remember is that awful day waiting at the Sandy Hook Volunteer Firehouse for the boy who would never come home.”

World: All on board survived when an Indonesian airliner missed the runway in Bali and landed in shallow rocky water. The Lion Air jet broke in half but there were few serious injuries among the 108 on board.

NoSeeUms: Scientists have discovered a phenomenon they call “dark lightning”, lightning bolts you can’t see, The Washington Post reports. The dark bolts are not electrical. They are powerful bursts of radiation most likely to strike airplanes flying through a storm.

Tiger: The golf world is all a Twitter about Tiger Woods’ illegal ball drop in Friday’s Masters tournament. Instead of dropping the ball close to where it went in the water, Woods chose to drop near where he made the stroke. But it wasn’t close enough and an alert television viewer phoned tournament officials. Woods was given a two-stroke penalty, but some say he should be disqualified. Woods starts today three strokes back.

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