• Pope Francis, who last weekend married 20 couples to highlight the role of families, plans to celebrate a Mass in St. Peter's Square on Sept. 28 in honor of grandparents.
• Jerry Brown, the Democratic governor of California, where groundwater makes up nearly 60 percent of water used during dry years, signed legislation overhauling the state's management of its groundwater supply, getting it in line with other states that have long regulated their wells.
• Ira Flatow and his Science Friday radio show that airs on many National Public Radio stations have agreed to pay nearly $146,000 to settle civil claims that they misused money from a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, federal officials said.
• Leonardo DiCaprio, 39, was named a U.N. Messenger of Peace and will focus on climate-change issues in his role, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
• Lonnie Phillips and wife Sandy of San Antonio, whose daughter Jessica Ghawi, 24, was among the people slain in the 2012 Colorado theater shootings, filed a lawsuit accusing four online retailers of improperly selling ammunition, tear gas, a high-capacity magazine and body armor used in the attack.
• Cardinal Orani Joao Tempesta, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, escaped injury during a robbery by three gunmen who took his cellphone, ring, crucifix and pen, with police later recovering some of the stolen goods.
• Steven St. Jacques, 27, of Stamford, Conn., was charged with second-degree larceny, accused of stealing $100 in birthday money from an autistic man.
• Richard Dale Fox, 41, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for setting off a homemade cannonlike device while drinking with friends, spraying fragments that killed his longtime girlfriend Jeanette Ogara in Southern California in 2012.
• David Nathan Thompson, a Georgia man who in 2005 fired a high-powered rifle at a home and was later banished from most of the state, can live with his mother in DeKalb County but is not allowed out of the county, a judge ruled.
• Michael Brandon Hill, 21, a gunman who was persuaded by a bookkeeper to surrender during a 2013 gunbattle with police at a school near Atlanta, pleaded guilty to multiple charges and was sentenced to 20 years in prison over the gunfire that resulted in no injuries.
A Section on 09/17/2014