The World

THURSDAY

North Carolina’s effort to become the first state to compensate people subjected to involuntary sterilizations failed when legislators passed a $20.2 billion budget that does not include proposed $50,000 payments for each of the 146 victims still alive. Nearly 7,600 people, mostly women, were sterilized from 1929 to 1974 in a state-sanctioned eugenics program that forced sterilizations and castrations on citizens deemed unfit to bear children in North Carolina.

Convicted sex offenders and child predators will have to post their criminal status on their Facebook profile under a new Louisiana law.

A rescue team scrambled up Mount Hood in Oregon to reach a badly injured climber left stranded but alive after he fell hundreds of feet while trying to scale the peak alone.

FRIDAY

The 12-member jury in Bellefonte, Penn., deliberated over 21 hours and found 68-year-old former football coach Jerry Sandusky guilty of sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years, sometimes at Penn State University facilities.

Mount Rainier National Park ranger Nick Hall, 34, fell more than 3,000 feet to his death while trying to rescue stranded climbers who had fallen into a crevasse on the frigid mountain.

The U.S. National Research Council reported seas could rise 20 to 55 inches by 2100, and found that the water along California’s coast from the Mexican border to Cape Mendocino would rise higher than in other places in the world.

Euro Zone politics took to the soccer field as Germany crushed the national team from debt-riddled Greece 4-2 in a one-sided Euro 2012 soccer quarter-final.

WEEKEND

Gulf of Mexico oil and gas operators shut down 7.8 percent of daily oil and 8.16 percent of daily natural gas production because of a weather disturbance expected to develop into Tropical Storm Debby. The Gulf accounts for about 20 percent of U.S. oil production and six percent of natural gas output.

Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker, who was hailed as a hero after rescuing a woman from a burning home in April, was among a group of people who came to the aid of a pedestrian hit by a car, helping tend to the injured man until an ambulance arrived.

Sprinters Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh ran an unprecedented dead heat for the third spot on the Olympic team in the 100 meter dash at the U.S. Olympic trials, both clocking 11.068 seconds. Officials are still determining whether the tie will be settled by the toss of a coin or a head-to-head sprint.

MONDAY

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Arizona can require police to check the immigration status of people they stop, even for minor offenses such as jay-walking. The court, though, ruled those police can only refer illegal immigrants to federal authorities.

U.S. border police recovered the bodies of four suspected illegal immigrants who died attempting to cross the remote sun-baked Arizona desert from Mexico in deadly triple digit temperatures.

Greece’s new finance minister Vassilis Rapanos, 64, resigned because of ill health, throwing the government’s drive to soften the terms of an international bailout into confusion days before a European summit.

Firefighters struggled to get to a house fire in New Port Richey, Fla. because of high flood waters — and a 10-foot alligator who stood between them and the home.

TUESDAY

Stockton, Calif., will become the largest U.S. city to seek protection from its creditors after its leaders approved a budget based on the city filing for bankruptcy. The budget for the city of some-300,000 people eliminates retirees’ medical benefits to help fill a $26 million budget deficit.

The central African nation of Gabon will burn its government stockpiles of ivory against the backdrop of a surge in the killing of elephants and rhinos across the continent to meet surging Asian demand.

A male black bear captured on Cape Cod earlier this month, where it was tranquilized and moved to central Massachusetts, showed up again just six miles from downtown Boston.

Oreo faces a boycott for posting a gay-pride-themed picture of an Oreo cookie with rainbow frosting on Facebook.

WEDNESDAY

A raging wildfire in Colorado forced 32,000 people to flee their homes and prompted the evacuation from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth shook the hand of former IRA guerrilla commander Martin McGuinness for the first time, drawing a line under a conflict that cost the lives of thousands of soldiers and civilians, including that of her cousin.

Days of rain in Bangladesh, some of the heaviest in years, have set off flash floods and landslides, killing at least 70 people and stranding about 200,000.

Compiled by Gazette staff from a variety

of sources.