• U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, 84, avoided a prolonged fight for his 23rd term after his main opponent, Adriano Espaillat, 59, conceded and said he would not challenge the results of a tightly contested Democratic primary.
• Jedediah Fox-Udall, 27, the son of U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., pleaded guilty in Colorado to burglary and breaking into cars in Eldorado Springs under a deferred-judgment agreement that could result in his case being dismissed.
• Jeffrey Coley, 50, who was fired earlier this month from a Chick-fil-A in northern South Carolina and then accused of robbing a KFC in Rock Hill, was arrested after a chase and charged with armed robbery.
• James Mason, 34, was booked on an armed robbery charge, accused of robbing a Monroe, La., Waffle House that once employed him, and was arrested at his home after sheriff's deputies tracked him using a cellphone taken in the robbery.
• U.S. Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., introduced legislation that would name a post office in Van Nuys after the late actress Marilyn Monroe, who attended Van Nuys High School in the 1940s.
• Eloy Renteria-Ortiz, 18, a Mexican accused of trying to smuggle 41/2 pounds of methamphetamine into Arizona in an accordion, was arrested at the Port of Nogales.
• Chung Hong-won, the South Korean premier who had offered to step down after April's ferry disaster, has agreed to stay on after two possible successors abandoned their nominations because of questions over past behavior, officials said.
• U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., the House Judiciary chairman, said at a Washington breakfast that President Barack Obama should pressure the Mexican government to help stop the surge of unaccompanied children illegally crossing the U.S. border.
• William Rabourn, 23, of Springfield, Mo., was charged with felony burglary and felony stealing an animal over allegations that he broke into a woman's apartment and threw her small dog to its death from a third-story window.
• Salvatore Cambria and Erick Onyango of Suffern, N.Y., filed a federal lawsuit against the New Jersey Lottery, saying they threw out a Powerball ticket worth $1 million when the lottery didn't quickly update its website with the winning numbers on March 23.
A Section on 06/27/2014