Trial canceled for Methodist minister

NEW YORK — A Unit­ed Methodist bishop on Monday dropped the case against a retired minister accused of breaking church law by officiating his son’s same-sex wedding — a dramatic decision that came just months after another minister was defrocked for the same reason. The Rev. Thom­as Ogletree, 80, a for­mer dean of the Yale Divinity School, said he’s grateful his church had decided not to put him on trial for what he called “an act of pasto­ral faithfulness and fatherly love.” From Associated Press and Gannett News Ser­vice reports.