• Rob Ford, the Toronto mayor seeking re-election despite a recent rehab stint for drug and alcohol abuse, trumpeted his "proven track record of success" and called a business crowd "elitist" after the crowd laughed repeatedly at him during an election debate.
• Jon Huntsman, a former Utah governor who briefly ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, told reporters in Salt Lake City that he was replying with a "strong no" when asked if he would enter the coming presidential race.
• Shimon Peres, the retired Israeli president, proposed a "United Nations of Religions" to Pope Francis, given that most wars today have religious, not nationalistic, undercurrents.
• Ida Parker and Kristin Orr encountered a great white shark while kayaking off the coast of Massachusetts and had to be rescued by the Plymouth harbor master after the fish tried to take a bite out of one kayak, spilling both riders into the water.
• Frank Gehry is revising the design for a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower near the National Mall in Washington after objections delayed the architect's project.
• Brandiss Pearson, who is black, filed a complaint that led Syracuse, N.Y., school officials to suspend a white school security guard who Pearson said forced her 12-year-old son with Down syndrome to pose for a photo in a way that made it look like the boy was being frisked.
• Joel Clark, 37, of Indianapolis was being held at the Marion County jail on charges of killing a domestic animal and torturing or mutilating a vertebrate animal, accused of killing a friend's dog by putting the canine in a hot oven.
• Greg Meffert, a former city technology chief in New Orleans, was sentenced by a federal judge to 2½ years in prison for his role in a bribery scheme that ensnared former Mayor Ray Nagin, who is to begin serving a 10-year sentence Monday.
• John Junek, 40, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, accused of forgetting to drop off his 17-month-old son at day care at the Maryland naval base where he works and leaving the toddler in his car seat for more than six hours, where the boy died in scorching midday heat.
• Jerome Slowik, 28, an Illinois man who won more than $120,000 on the Jeopardy quiz show, is to stand trial in Wisconsin next month on a child sexual assault charge.
A Section on 09/05/2014