• Rob Ford, the Toronto mayor who admitted last year that he had smoked crack in a "drunken stupor," plans to return to work June 30 after a two-month stay in rehab and asked the city clerk in a letter to restore his old office locks, which were changed when he left.
• Darrin Gayles was confirmed by the Senate in a 98-0 vote to become a district court judge in Florida, marking the first time the chamber had confirmed an openly gay black man to a top-level federal judgeship.
• Ted Osius, a veteran diplomat and President Barack Obama's nominee to become the next U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, said during his Senate confirmation hearing that it may be time for Washington to consider lifting a ban on the sale and transfer of lethal weapons to the former American enemy.
• Maksym Shynkarenko, a Ukrainian man considered by some authorities to be possibly the most significant distributor of child pornography ever prosecuted in the U.S., was sentenced to 30 years in prison in New Jersey for running a network of websites that catered to pedophiles around the world.
• Cesar Chavez, an Arizona congressional candidate formerly known as Scott Fistler who legally changed his name to that of the late farm labor leader, will be removed from the Democratic primary ballot because of invalid nomination signatures, a judge ruled.
• Clifford Alderson, 48, a blind New Mexico man who recently earned an auto mechanics degree by listening and learning to feel his way around a vehicle, has not landed a full-time job but says he's optimistic.
• Christen D. Moore, who Michigan authorities say tried to throw a football loaded with drugs and cellphones into the yard of a state prison, was arraigned on contraband charges and ordered jailed in lieu of $50,000 bond.
• Daniel Shoffner was arrested on a preliminary murder charge after a woman's body was found inside a freezer at the Indiana home she had been sharing with Shoffner for several months, authorities said.
• Josip Perkovic, Croatia's former spy chief, was charged by German prosecutors with being an accessory to murder in the 1983 killing of a Yugoslav dissident in Bavaria.
• Luz Jimenez, 26, a nanny, climbed into a 15-foot-deep septic hole and rescued a 3-year-old neighbor, Alison Machigua, who was up to her neck in water, said authorities in Hackettstown, N.J.
A Section on 06/18/2014