• Rob Ford, 45, the Toronto mayor who withdrew his re-election bid last week, is suffering from a rare and difficult cancer that will require aggressive chemotherapy, his doctor said.
• Joe Biden, the vice president, will speak at next month's dedication of a new high school in Joplin, Mo., where a May 2011 tornado killed 161 people and flattened the school along with thousands of homes and businesses.
• Brian LaCroix, owner of a Chick-fil-A in Abilene, Texas, where a man in a white pickup left $1,000 at the drive-thru window and said he just wanted to make everyone's Monday better, said the cash was enough to pay for food for people in 88 vehicles over about an hour.
• Gideon Saar, 47, an Israeli politician who is the interior minister and often mentioned as a possible next leader of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, announced in a surprise move that he will quit politics to spend more time with his family.
• King Carl XVI Gustaf, 68, of Sweden was involved in a car crash on his way to an airport in Stockholm but was unhurt, the royal palace said.
• U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller, arrested last month on a charge of battering his wife, has lost the confidence of his colleagues and others and should quit the lifetime appointment.
• John Stumpf, 61, Wells Fargo's chief executive, told the National Press Club in Washington about his first meal with Warren Buffett, saying the billionaire investor unloaded a "snowstorm" of salt on his plate, which led Stumpf to suggest that Buffett, 84, cut back and consider getting a colonoscopy.
• Cecilio Cruz was arrested this week in Cottonwood, Ariz., in the March 1997 slaying of his ex-girlfriend, 17-year-old Marisol Gonzalez, with police giving credit to the TNT show Cold Justice, which aired an episode on the case earlier this year.
• Christen D. Moore, 22, apologized for trying to throw a football loaded with drugs and cellphones into a state prison yard in Michigan and was sentenced to 17-60 months behind bars.
• Ryan Shucard, 26, the press secretary for Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Marino of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor weapons charges, acknowledging that he accidentally carried an unloaded gun and ammunition into a congressional office building in Washington, which earned him a 30-day suspended sentence.
A Section on 09/18/2014