• Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland apologized to two Romanian Gypsy families who had their children temporarily removed from their homes in 2013 because they were blond and blue-eyed.
• Cynthia Watson, 51, of Oregon was arrested in Riverside County, Calif., on child-endangerment charges after her 2-year-old granddaughter drank tea with methamphetamine in it.
• Megan Smith of Poulsbo, Wash., who lost her prosthetic leg while swimming with her husband in Washington state, was reunited with the limb after Hannah Listle found it while looking for shells at Point No Point beach.
• Elizabeth Clark, 84, a Washington state woman who lost her Howard Payne University class ring in 1954 near San Angelo, Texas, is set to get it back Friday at a family reunion in Brownfield, Texas, after the ring was found in a dried-up lake bed in March.
• George Talley, 71, has his 1979 Chevrolet Corvette back 33 years after it was stolen in Detroit, having ended up in Hattiesburg, Miss., in good condition and with only 47,000 miles on it.
• Crystal Moore, 42, was in a police uniform and back on the job as police chief of Latta, S.C., more than two months after she says she was fired by the mayor because she's a lesbian and after a change in the town form of government paved the way for her rehiring.
• Samantha Elizabeth Unger, 23, a Maryland woman accused of poisoning her 3-year-old and 1-year-old sons with eyedrops, faces charges of aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of children, Pennsylvania police said.
• John Ruiz of Albuquerque, N.M., who police say left a loaded gun with his 11-year-old daughter for her protection while he went to get a tattoo, is facing a child endangerment charge.
• Suzanne Chase of Acton, Mass., whose Vietnam veteran husband, Doug, died in August 2012 after a brain tumor diagnosis and while awaiting a reply to a request to move his medical care, received an apology from the Veterans Affairs Department over a recent letter saying her husband could call to make an appointment.
• Marquis Johnson, 22, of Hatfield, Pa., whom police found dribbling a basketball along an interstate, with a Pennsylvania license plate sticking out from his shirt and shorts, and smelling of marijuana, was charged with abandoning a vehicle and drug possession.
A Section on 07/02/2014