The Dalai Lama, 80, the Tibetan spiritual leader, returned to Dharamsala, India, home to the Tibetan government in exile, and assured his followers that he is in “excellent condition” despite canceling his tour of the U.S. during a medical checkup at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
Carlotta Walls LaNier, 72, the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High School in 1957, was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame along with Nancy Brinker, who began the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, at a ceremony in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
Gary Oldman, the Academy Award-nominated actor, finalized his divorce from singer Alexandra Edenborough, his fourth wife, after six years of marriage.
Krzysztof Charamsa, 43, a monsignor working for the Catholic Church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, was fired by the Vatican but will remain a priest after he revealed in interviews with Italian and Polish newspapers that he is gay and in love with a man whom he called his boyfriend.
Matthew Vacca, 55, an administrative law judge in Missouri who claimed in a workers’ compensation lawsuit that he was wrongfully fired in 2011 because of his progressive, degenerative neuromuscular disorder, was awarded $7 million by a St. Louis jury.
Kevin Carter, 54, a priest in Little Ferry, N.J., posted bail after he was charged with child endangerment and aggravated assault, accused of pointing a musket at an 8-year-old boy in the church’s rectory after he and the boy, football team rivals, discussed a coming Giants-Cowboys game.
Kristopher Love, 31, was charged with capital murder and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, after Dallas police say he admitted that he had been hired to rob pediatric dentist Kendra Hatcher, 35, who ended up fatally shot.
Anthony Scott, 26, a Georgia State Patrol trooper who investigators say had been driving 91 mph in a 55-mph zone just seconds before his car slammed into a vehicle, killing two teenagers, has been fired.
Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, parents of Lisa Irwin, who disappeared four years ago when she was 10 months old, held a prayer vigil at their home in Kansas City, Mo., calling it an opportunity to share their daughter’s story and to distribute updated age-progression photos of her.