The World

THURSDAY

Penn State leaders, including the late football coach Joe Paterno, covered up Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of children for years, showing a callous disregard for the victims to protect a multimillion-dollar football program, according to an investigation by former FBI director Louis Freeh.

A bush pilot noticed one of the biggest landslides on record in the Alaskan wilderness near Lituya Mountain. The slide spread rock and debris about 5.5 miles over a glacier in a remote section of Glacier Bay National Park. Fifty-four years ago, there was a fatal landslide in Lituya Bay, which lies at the foot of a glacier flowing from Lituya Mountain.

A pair of chimpanzees were briefly on the loose in a Las Vegas neighborhood before police trying to corral the potentially dangerous animals shot one chimp dead and authorities managed to tranquilize and capture the other.

A Rhode Island kitten born with two faces died at the age of six days. Named Gemini, he had four eyes, two noses, two mouths, two ears and 24 toes.

FRIDAY

Florida health officials denied they covered up a sharp spike in tuberculosis infections among the homeless in Jacksonville and said the public was not at risk from what is believed to be the worst TB outbreak in the nation in 20 years.

William Martin LaFever, 28, an autistic man, was rescued from Utah’s remote Escalante Desert after surviving at least three weeks alone in temperatures that topped 100 degrees by eating roots and frogs.

A 59-year-old Utah man used his obituary to come clean about a long-forgotten crime. Val Patterson wrote in his obituary before he died from throat cancer, “As it turns out, I AM the guy who stole the safe from the Motor View Drive Inn back in June, 1971.”

A naked man crashed a pickup truck into the Southwest Center Mall in Dallas and drove over a few kiosks before stopping to try on clothes. Once inside, he left his blanket in the truck and started putting on clothes and a pair of Air Jordan shoes. No one was injured. He’s jailed without bond on a burglary charge.

WEEKEND

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell asked the Obama administration to declare a fisheries disaster for parts of the state where weak salmon runs are taking a toll on Native Alaskan villagers who rely on wild fish for food and as one of their few income sources.

Several “sewing-type” needles were found in sandwiches served on Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to three U.S. cities. Investigators were trying to determine how they got into the meals.

Republicans raged against the U.S. Navy spending $26 a gallon on biofuels it is using to fly its planes. The Air Force paid twice as much to test a synthetic jet fuel last month.

One of the drill ships that Royal Dutch Shell plans to use in a controversial Arctic drilling program slipped off its moorings and drifted to the edge of shore in Alaska’s Aleutian islands.

American Kent Couch and Fareed Lafta of Iraq failed in their bid on Saturday to set a world record for the longest two-man cluster balloon flight when bad weather forced their lawn chairs tied to 350 helium-filled balloons down well short of their destination.

MONDAY

The Ambassador Bridge, a busy international border crossing linking Windsor, Ontario, with Detroit, was closed for five hours following a bomb threat that turned up no bomb.

New York power company Consolidated Edison reduced voltage in some Manhattan neighborhoods, an action known as a brown-out, as a heat wave stressed the electric system.

Drought now covers 55 percent of the contiguous United States and is the worst since 1956, according to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

President Barack Obama gave his wife, Michelle, a smooch as the pair were featured on the “kiss cam” at the USA-Brazil men’s basketball exhibition game in Washington, D.C. The couple was booed for not kissing when the pair was put in the kiss cam earlier in the game.

TUESDAY

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton completed an epic 13-day journey of 27,000 miles - about 2,000 miles more than the circumference of the Earth - through and over Europe to Asia and then doubling back to the Middle East, making her officially the most-travelled secretary of state in U.S. history.

The 900 residents of Talkeetna, Alaska praised the work of their mayor for bringing in tourist dollars during his more than decade-long stint in office. The 15-year-old mayor’s name? Stubbs - a beloved cat who has become popular around the globe.

Compiled by Gazette staff from a variety

of sources.