• Stephanie Culley of Alton, Va., a mother of three, made good on a promise to a high school friend who died of breast cancer and adopted her six children, saying the arrangement scared her at first, but now "it's so much better than anything I had in my head."
• Gordon Ramsay, the police chief in Wichita, Kan., has been invited to the White House to discuss community policing after he hosted a cookout to promote dialogue between officers and leaders of Black Lives Matter that attracted 2,000 people, some of whom are seen dancing with officers in videos posted online.
• Gov. Bruce Rauner of Illinois has apologized for a 2011 email that he wrote before becoming governor in which the Republican characterized Chicago public school teachers as "virtually illiterate" and principals as "incompetent," saying he was frustrated at the time by the pace of change in city schools.
• Ben Higgins of ABC's The Bachelor cited "unforeseen circumstances" in abandoning his bid to become a Colorado state legislator, just two days after he filed the paperwork to run for the Denver seat.
• Abhishek Dubey, 27, a convenience store clerk in Atlanta, was charged with aggravated assault after police said he locked the store doors with an 11-year-old boy inside, then pointed a gun at the youngster because he thought the boy was about to shoplift.
• John South, a U.S. Border Patrol agent, said the agency briefly detained two Canadian teenagers who were so engrossed in playing Pokemon Go that they accidentally crossed the border into Sweet Grass, Mont.
• Chris King, 57, who underwent a double hand transplant at the Leeds General Infirmary in England, already has some movement, and his surgeon is optimistic that he will eventually have good movement and feeling in both hands.
• Joshuaa Brubaker, 39, will get $55,000 to settle a free-speech lawsuit related to his arrest in 2014 in Alleghany Township, Pa., on allegations that he desecrated the U.S. flag by painting "AIM," for American Indian Movement, on it and flying it upside down from his porch to protest plans to run the Keystone pipeline through Wounded Knee, S.D.
• Chakia Fennoy, a Baltimore police detective, said two bulls fleeing from a slaughterhouse stopped to munch on grass, allowing officers to surround them with their cruisers and take them into custody.
A Section on 07/23/2016