• President Barack Obama will present the Medal of Honor June 19 to retired Marine Cpl. William "Kyle" Carpenter, an Afghanistan war veteran severely injured by a grenade blast in November 2010 and now a student at the University of South Carolina.

• James Everett Dutschke, 42, a Tupelo, Miss., man who pleaded guilty to sending letters dusted with the poison ricin to President Barack Obama and other officials, was sentenced in Aberdeen to 25 years in prison but wasn't fined or ordered to pay restitution because he doesn't have enough money, a prosecutor said.

• Charles Bolden, the head of NASA, said in Berlin that friction between the United States and Russia over Ukraine won't spell the end of the International Space Station, dismissing concerns that one of the world's most prestigious scientific endeavors could fall victim to political disagreement.

• Prince Harry, 29, wore full military dress as he paid tribute in Italy to fallen Allied troops from World War II, placing a wreath of poppies at the Commonwealth cemetery in Monte Cassino south of Rome, site of an epic 1944 battle over a hilltop monastery.

• Gary Kiehne, a Republican rancher running for Arizona's 1st Congressional District, apologized for saying during a primary debate that "99 percent of [mass shootings] have been by Democrats pulling their guns out and shooting people."

• Ben Bernanke, who led the Federal Reserve during the 2008 economic crisis, said at a conference hosted by the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas that he would like the history books to say he "did the best he could in tough circumstances."

• Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., became the latest prominent Democrat to oppose one of President Barack Obama's judicial nominees, Michael Boggs, who as a Georgia state legislator opposed efforts to remove the Confederate battle insignia from the state flag and favored posting online information about doctors who provide abortions.

• Kevin Sutherland, 46, who leads the small, nondenominational Mosaic Miami Church in Miami, was sentenced in New York to six months in jail for peddling bogus examples of some of British artist Damien Hirst's signature paintings.

• Timothy Lambesis, 33, the lead singer of the Grammy-nominated metal band As I Lay Dying, was sentenced in San Diego County, Calif., to six years in prison for plotting last year to kill his wife, Meggan Lambesis.

A Section on 05/20/2014