• Ray Nagin, the former New Orleans mayor, filed a formal notice of appeal in the corruption case that resulted in a guilty verdict on 20 criminal counts and a prison sentence of 10 years.
• Bryan Anderson, a police officer in Hemet, Calif., was on duty when he got a call from his wife, Holly, saying she was about to give birth, and hurried home to deliver his son Michael in the bathroom when paramedics didn't arrive in time.
• Stan Ostapiak, 69, of Staten Island, N.Y., said his returned high school class ring "doesn't fit me anymore," more than 40 years after it disappeared with his wife's purse before somehow winding up among the belongings of Vasilis Polykretis' late father on the Greek island of Naxos.
• Thomas Mistele of Flemington, N.J., won $1 million after buying a $20 lottery ticket while vacationing on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island.
• Jean-Claude Juncker, a former prime minister of Luxembourg, received a majority vote in the European Parliament to become president of the European Commission, the most powerful agency of the European Union, after overcoming opposition from Britain and some lawmakers.
• Vita Abramenkova, who is accused of leaving her 19-month-old daughter in a locked, running car while she shopped for 40 minutes in Pinellas Park, Fla., as temperatures hit 92 degrees, was charged with child neglect.
• Margaret Lopez Carrillo was charged in Rankin County, Miss., with felony possession and felony obstruction for attempting to destroy or hide evidence, accused of hiding methamphetamine in her 5-year-old daughter's pants.
• Carmine Cervellino of Thomaston, Conn., was arraigned on charges of threatening and disorderly conduct after a woman told police he stabbed a watermelon after she reported finding drugs in his toolbox.
• Matt Guthmiller, 19, an engineering student from South Dakota, completed a journey of more than 29,000 miles around the world in a leased, single-engine airplane in six weeks when he touched down at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, Calif.
• Thomas Ravenel, 51, who had to resign months into his term as South Carolina's state treasurer in 2007 after he was charged with buying cocaine, presented signatures to run for the U.S. Senate as an independent and said he will return for the second season of Bravo's Southern Charm, a reality TV show.
A Section on 07/16/2014