• U.S. Rep. John Carter, R-Texas, said that the FBI will investigate the scheduling of patients at a Veterans Affairs facility in Temple in central Texas and that he had heard allegations of scheduling being delayed to secure bonuses for managers, as well as papers being shredded.
• Nicodemo Scarfo, the son of a former Philadelphia mob boss, and a reputed mob associate, Salvatore Pelullo, were convicted in New Jersey on federal fraud charges for taking over a Texas-based mortgage company and then plundering its assets to buy homes, luxury cars, a plane and a yacht.
• Shawna Uriguen, 29, an Idaho woman who had been having contractions but didn't think she was in labor, delivered her 6-pound, 7-ounce daughter, named Kimber Marie Crown, by herself while driving to a doctor's appointment.
• Tony Gorn, an Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist, has put out containers of bear urine in Nome to try to drive away troublesome musk oxen herds after rubber bullets and fireworks failed to deter them.
• Luther Strange, the Alabama attorney general who is seeking re-election, told the Republican Women of Huntsville that he goes to work "every day and [thinks] of a way to sue the Obama administration."
• Jay Nixon, the Democratic governor of Missouri, signed a bill allowing first responders to obtain and carry an antidote for heroin overdoses, saying it could save "precious, lifesaving minutes" in an emergency situation.
• Mubarak Bala, 29, a Nigerian atheist who was released from the mental ward to which his Muslim family committed him by force, said he is getting death threats for blaspheming against Islam.
• Dylan Nathaniel Hendsbee, 22, a Maine man who bit off part of a man's ear during an April 2013 fight and said it was the only way to defend himself while being choked, has been acquitted of assault charges.
• Daniel Urresti, 57, the newly named interior minister of Peru, said he has no intention of resigning despite a formal accusation that he took part in the 1988 murder of a journalist while he was an army intelligence officer.
• Mohammad Ajmal Choudhry, a New York City taxi driver, was convicted of arranging the honor killings in Pakistan of two relatives of a man who had helped Choudhry's daughter flee an arranged marriage and faces up to life in prison.
A Section on 07/04/2014