10 Things to Know for Tuesday August 13, 2013

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

  1. CLOSURE FOR SOME AFTER BULGER VERDICT  The Boston mobster was convicted of 11 killings, but a jury couldn't connect eight other slayings to the longtime fugitive. WHITEY BULGER

2. ISRAEL TO RELEASE PRISONERS BEFORE PEACE TALKS  Twenty-six people will be freed before formal negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders begin on Wednesday. ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS

3. NYC MAYOR SAYS STOP-AND-FRISK RULING 'DANGEROUS'  Michael Bloomberg says a federal judge's rebuke of the police tactic could usher in a return to the days of high violent crime rates in the nation's largest city. STOP AND FRISK

4. TEEN 'NOT A WILLING PARTICIPANT' IN ABDUCTION  Police say Hannah Anderson is recovering in Idaho after FBI agents shot her kidnapper, a family friend accused of killing her mother and brother. BURNED BODIES-KIDNAPPED GIRL

5. EGYPTIAN POLICE SCRAP PLANS TO EVICT PROTESTERS  Security forces decided against dispersing the crowds, fearing a "massacre" after thousands of Morsi supporters flooded into two protest camps. EGYPT

6. NIGERIA MOSQUE ATTACKS BLAMED ON MILITANTS  The radical Boko Haram group was said to be behind the deaths of 44 people praying and 12 others in a separate attack. NIGERIA-VIOLENCE

7. THE BIGGEST COLLEGE EXPENSE  Housing and food costs trump tuition for two- and four-year schools in students' home states. BACK TO SCHOOL-WHAT COLLEGE COSTS

8. WHY A JUDGE CHANGED A BABY'S NAME  Lu Ann Ballew says she ordered A Tennessee couple to change their son's first name from "Messiah" to "Martin" because the only person worthy of the name is Jesus Christ. NAME CHANGE-MESSIAH

9. RACE CLAIMS DROPPED FROM PAULA DEEN LAWSUIT  A judge rules a white former restaurant manager has no standing to accuse the food diva of racism. PAULA DEEN

10. BASEBALL FAN DIES IN FALL FROM STANDS  The man fell more than 60 feet from an upper-level platform to a parking lot at the Braves-Phillies game in Atlanta. TURNER FIELD-FALL