• Jay Carney, 49, the former White House press secretary, has talked with Apple Inc. about a public-relations job, although he said in an email that he's "talking to a lot of different people" about employment.
• Danielle Saxton, 27, of West Frankfort, Ill., was charged with misdemeanor retail theft after police who were investigating the theft of clothing and jewelry from a local boutique say she posted Facebook photos of herself wearing one of the stolen items, a distinctive leopard-print dress.
• Wally Collins, a white-bearded Phoenix restaurateur, won the annual "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest on his sixth attempt at Sloppy Joe's Bar, a favorite of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway during the 1930s, in Key West, Fla.
• Gene Muggins was arrested in Loxley, Ala., after authorities say a hidden baby monitor, which Chad Stapleton set up after equipment for his catering business was burglarized three times in a month, caught him in the act.
• J. Sara Paulk, director of the Houston County Public Library System in Perry, Ga., said the library let people check out as many as 50 books before the main site closed for 10 months of construction and renovation work so that employees and volunteers would have fewer books to move.
• Joseph Coffman, 28, of Fort McDowell, Ariz., is charged with aggravated battery, suspected of stabbing his half brother, Dennis Coffman, 47, of Petersburg, Ill., to death during a dispute in a pickup as the two traveled on a freeway near the Illinois-Missouri border.
• Philippa Kennedy, ombudsman for The Sun, a British tabloid, said in a letter sent to Lake Havasu City, Ariz., officials that the paper will run a correction for a story stating Arizona's own London Bridge could be bulldozed to make way for a haven for marijuana users called Hemped in Havasu.
• Adam Dandach, an Orange County, Calif., man who reportedly told federal agents that he was going overseas to help the Islamic State as he was about to board a flight at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, Calif., is set to be arraigned today on charges of lying on a U.S. passport application.
• Frank McFarland, who was fishing in Nome, Alaska, caught a rare blue-colored red king crab, which is being kept alive at the Norton Sound Seafood Center until he can have it mounted.
A Section on 07/21/2014