• Julian Castro, 39, the mayor of San Antonio, was confirmed by the Senate to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development on a 71-26 vote, which included Democrat Mark Pryor of Arkansas voting yes and Republican John Boozman voting no.
• Mateo Romero, a well-known Pueblo painter, said a Santa Fe, N.M., police officer pulled a rifle on him after his dog relieved itself in his SUV and a woman mistook his cleanup efforts for a burglary.
• Tiffany Leiseth, 26, a Pennsylvania high school substitute English teacher who no longer works for the New Brighton School District, has been charged with having sex with two 18-year-old students before they graduated in late May.
• Enda Kenny, Ireland's prime minister, said the country will review planning laws after a licensing controversy led to the cancellation of five concerts in Dublin by Garth Brooks that 400,000 people had been expected to attend.
• President Barack Obama said most Americans may not know the name of Matt Olsen, the outgoing director of the National Counterterrorism Center, but they are safer because of his dedicated service.
• Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, the mayor of Warsaw, Poland, said she fired obstetrician Bogdan Chazan, the head of a maternity hospital who refused to perform or facilitate an abortion of a badly deformed fetus for reasons of conscience.
• Gerhard Bradner, a pilot on a Frontier Airlines plane stuck in Cheyenne, Wyo., because of storms, ordered about 35 pizzas to feed the 160 people on the plane as it waited to depart for Denver.
• Martha Weaver, a Pennsylvania woman in her 80s, said a Selective Service System draft notice arrived for her father, Fred Minnick, who died in 1992 at age 97.
• Bobby Leonard, 59, of Naylor, Mo., is facing charges of assault and armed criminal action, accused of shooting his wife, Carolyn Leonard, because police say he "got tired of her."
• Roy Neal Yoakem, 46, a Kentucky pastor who is a registered sex offender, was arrested in Tennessee on charges of aggravated statutory rape, among other counts.
• Luke Bigham, 20, an Alabama man who played the younger version of Will Ferrell's character in the 2006 movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, was charged with third-degree domestic violence, accused of pushing his mother down a stairway.
A Section on 07/10/2014