• Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, 28, who was freed after years of captivity in Afghanistan and is awaiting the completion of an Army investigation into his disappearance in June 2009, has retained an attorney, Eugene Fidell, who teaches at Yale Law School.
• Julian Assange, 43, the founder of WikiLeaks, lost a bid to cancel a Swedish detention order connected to a sexual assault allegation as he fights to leave the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he sought asylum two years ago.
• Robert Jones, who told WHNS-TV in South Carolina that he's the imperial klaliff of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said the distribution of bags of candy in northwestern South Carolina was part of a Klan recruiting event.
• Gregg Hein, 33, a hiker stranded for six days with a badly broken leg in California's Sierra Nevada, said at a hospital that survival mode kicked in when he treated his own injury and sought sustenance by eating crickets and moths and drinking melting ice.
• Jason Buzi, a San Francisco Bay Area real estate investor behind cash giveaways on Twitter, agreed to send $5,000 to the city of Whittier, Calif., to cover the cost of repairs after 1,000 people trampled through a park seeking free money.
• James Lacroix, 53, of Mashpee, Mass., who is accused of breaking into a home in the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod and telling authorities he was looking for singer Katy Perry, was sent to a mental health facility for evaluation.
m Jason Yarbrough, an ex-police officer in Birmingham, Ala., who was fired for sending pictures of his genitals from his phone while on duty, is appealing his termination, saying others did similar things while on duty without being fired.
• Roger Owens of Greenville, S.C., was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison after admitting he dragged a dog for at least 2 miles behind his pickup.
• Phil Gormley, the deputy director general of Britain's National Crime Agency, said a crackdown that resulted in the arrests of 660 suspected pedophiles was the biggest police operation of its kind in Britain.
• Fatimate Diallo, 42, of Frederick, Md., was charged with two counts of leaving children under the age of 8 in an unattended vehicle while she was out of sight, accused of leaving her four children, ages 12, 9, 3 and 2, in a car in a supermarket parking lot when temperatures exceeded 90 degrees.
A Section on 07/17/2014