• Rob Ford, the Toronto mayor who returned to office last week after two months in rehab, was confronted at a news conference by calls for his resignation from shirtless protesters, who were inspired by a shirtless jogger who ranted at Ford during a Canada Day event.
• Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin who opposes gay marriage, said his 19-year-old son Alex's decision to be a witness at a relative's same-sex marriage isn't a policy statement.
• Zack "Danger" Brown, 31, of Columbus, Ohio, who jokingly sought $10 to pay for his first attempt at making potato salad, has raised more than $37,000 from a crowd-funding Internet site.
• Robert Cleland, a federal judge in Detroit, dismissed a lawsuit by the rap-metal duo Insane Clown Posse and its fans, known as Juggalos, and said the government can't be blamed for any fallout from a 2011 FBI report that put a gang tag on Juggalos.
• Michael Reid, an Arctic expedition leader, said at a coroner's inquest in England that he tried to gouge a polar bear's eyes to stop it from attacking teens on an Arctic adventure trip in August 2011 during which one teen was fatally mauled and four others were injured.
• Frankea Dabbs, 20, a North Carolina woman described by New York City police as homeless, was charged with child abandonment, accused of leaving her baby in a crowded Manhattan subway station.
• Kevin Matthew Perkins, 28, a New Mexico inmate in jail on several charges, including robbery and creditcard fraud, was captured after he escaped from jail by hiding in a laundry basket and fleeing toward an assisted-living complex.
• Kevin Whitney, 53, an Oklahoma farmer who thought his iPhone was lost for good when it fell into a grain elevator last year, has it back after it was returned unscathed after a trip to Japan.
• Catrina McGhaw, who rented a house in Ferguson, Mo., that was the likely site of several slayings by Maury Troy Travis, a suspected serial killer who committed suicide in jail in 2002, was allowed by St. Louis public housing officials to move out after her landlord wouldn't break the lease.
• James Wells, 63, was sentenced in Alaska to four consecutive life terms in the 2012 shooting deaths of two co-workers at a Coast Guard communications station that mystified an island community for nearly a year before an arrest was made.
A Section on 07/09/2014