Correction: Janez Jansa, Slovenia’s former prime minister, who has begun a two-year prison sentence, was convicted of agreeing to accept a bribe. An item below, based on an Associated Press article, misstated the crime for which he was convicted.
• Johann Westhauser, 52, a researcher who was rescued from Germany's deepest cavern nearly two weeks after being hit in the head by a falling rock, suffered skull and eye-socket fractures and some internal bleeding, doctors said.
• Edward Holley of Orlando, Fla., was charged with attempted murder after throwing a pan of hot grease and grits at Darryl Blacknell, with whom Holley had an argument a day earlier, then telling officers he planned to kill Blacknell, police said.
• Marilyn Fisher and Dominic Rudakevych of Middleton Valley, Md., received $2,000 scholarships as well as watches, trophies and crowns after the 13-year-olds won the 91st annual National Marbles Championship in New Jersey.
• Laura Lundquist, 102, who suffers from dementia and five years ago was deemed incompetent to stand trial in the strangling of her 100-year-old nursing home roommate, is Massachusetts' oldest murder defendant because her second-degree murder charge is still pending, though prosecutors said they do not intend to ever take the case to trial.
• Pope Francis condemned the legalization of recreational drugs as a flawed and failed experiment, telling delegates at a Rome drug enforcement conference that, "Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise."
• Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said at a forum hosted by The Christian Science Monitor that it was a mistake for him to refer to alcoholics to explain his views on homosexuals, saying he "stepped right in it" when asked whether homosexuality is a disorder.
• Janez Jansa, Slovenia's former prime minister, has begun a two-year sentence at Dob prison near the capital, Ljubljana, for accepting bribes while in office to help the Finnish company Patria win a $377 million government contract.
• William Clark Perschman, 51, who served a five-year sentence for robbing 18 banks in Dallas in 2006, pleaded guilty to robbing four more banks in the city while on supervised release last year and was sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison.
• Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana signed a law allowing owner Michael Sandlin to keep his pet tiger at his Grosse Tete truck stop, which Sandlin said is the only home the cat named Tony has ever known.
A Section on 06/21/2014