• Jay Nixon, the Democratic governor of Missouri, vetoed legislation that would have required a 72-hour wait for women seeking abortions, asserting that legislators showed a "callous disregard for women" by granting no exception for rape and incest victims.
• Gloria Elzy, 44, of Slidell, La., who is accused of leaving her 5-week-old infant locked inside a car for more than 30 minutes before a police officer rescued the child, was arrested on a charge of second-degree cruelty to juveniles.
• Jeffrey Wendorff, 28, was arrested on suspicion of cruel mistreatment of animals after 300 to 500 domesticated rats were found dead or dying in a north-central Arizona travel trailer.
• Rob Ford, who returned to work as Toronto's mayor this week after a two-month rehabilitation stint, said in media interviews that he has used "every drug you can probably think of" and blamed substance abuse for his use of racial slurs and anti-gay language.
• The Rev. Francesco Bamonte, head of the International Association of Exorcists, said the Vatican's formal recognition of his group of 250 priests in 30 countries was cause for joy.
• President Barack Obama sought advice on the economy from former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Ronald Reagan adviser Martin Feldstein at a private White House lunch with mostly conservative-leaning thinkers, the White House said, without describing the conversation.
• Heather Rodriguez, 46, who police in Utah say attempted to buy methamphetamine from an off-duty police officer and claimed the purchase was a birthday gift for her sister, was arrested and booked into the Utah County jail on several drug charges.
• Abdullah Morsi, 20, the youngest son of Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, was convicted in Cairo on charges of drug possession and consumption, and was sentenced along with a friend to a year in prison.
• John Skowron Kirwan, 40, a Springfield, Mass., man on probation, was arrested after police said he stole a pack of cigarettes from a convenience store in Westfield because he wanted to go back to jail.
• Megan Hubbard-Riley, 22, whose great-great-grandfather Elbert Hubbard founded the Roycroft artisan community outside Buffalo, N.Y., is accused of stealing family heirlooms, including guns, and selling them to support a heroin addiction, police said.
A Section on 07/03/2014