A court has said no to former Penn State president Graham Spanier’s request to travel to Saudi Arabia. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Spanier, who is awaiting trial on perjury charges in the Sandusky scandal, wanted to go to the Middle East to meet with higher education officials.

Attorney General Kathleen Kane says she’s preparing for a re-election campaign but doesn’t believe she’ll be eligible to run for a second term next year, so long as her law license remains suspended. The State Supreme Court ordered the temporary suspension Monday as she fights perjury and other allegations. Meanwhile, Kane has joined her counterparts from more than two dozen other states in opening a probe of Volkswagen over admissions it rigged diesel emissions technology. Kane calls the automaker’s revelations “disturbing”.