The World

THURSDAY

Ford Motor Co. told owners of its Escape model, the best-selling SUV in the United States, to stop driving models with 1.6-liter engines immediately due to the risk of an engine fire.

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer ruled the Metropolitan Transportation Authority must allow pro-Israel group American Freedom Defense Initiative to place a paid advertisement on New York City public buses that equates jihadists with savages.

The death of a man shot inside his home by a sheriff’s deputy who went to the wrong apartment looking for a criminal suspect sparked protests in the central Florida city of Leesburg.

FRIDAY

Wearing a gas mask and body armor, a gunman entered a suburban Denver movie theater for a midnight premiere of the new “Batman” movie, opening fire and hurling a gas canister into the theater before killing 12 people and injuring 59 others. Police arrested James Eagan Holmes, 24, after he surrendered without a fight. Police said Holmes also booby-trapped his Aurora apartment with what appeared to be sophisticated explosives, creating a potential hazard for law-enforcement and bomb squad officers who swarmed to the scene.

Nearly two dozen people were treated for burns on their feet after walking on hot coals during a motivational seminar conducted by self-help expert Tony Robbins in San Jose, Calif.

Jim Davis is battling officials in his rural Alabama hometown of Stevenson for the right to keep his wife’s body buried in the yard of the house where the couple raised five children.

WEEKEND

In the early morning hours of Saturday, Penn State University workers removed the statue of legendary football coach Joe Paterno for his role in covering up former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of children.

A drill instructor accused of raping and sexually assaulting 10 female trainees at Lackland Air Force Base was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the stiffest jail term handed down yet in the biggest sex scandal to hit the U.S. military since the 1990s.

A wildfire sparked by lightning strikes in tinder-dry rangeland swept through a remote village and burned about 150 square miles in north-central Nebraska.

A fundraising drive for 68-year-old bus monitor Karen Klein of Greece, New York who had been bullied by middle-school students closed with a whopping $703,873 raised for the grandmother.

MONDAY

The NCAA fined Penn State University $60 million and voided its football victories for the past 14 seasons in an unprecedented rebuke for the school’s failure to stop coach Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of children.

Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman to travel into space, died after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 61. In 1983, at the age of 32, Ride blasted into outer space aboard space shuttle Challenger.

Parents in the impoverished desert community of Adelanto, Calif., seized their failing public school from the school district under a controversial “parent trigger” law.

Police in Lincoln, Neb., are investigating a possible gay hate crime against a 33-year-old woman who was tied up in her home and had gay slurs carved onto her body by three masked attackers.

A radio signal being transmitted out of a submarine base was blamed for preventing garage doors opening and closing in southeastern Connecticut.

The Muppets ended their relationship with fast food restaurant chain Chick-Fil-A after the chain’s CEO announced his opposition to gay marriage.

TUESDAY

Katie Medley, who escaped injury in the Colorado theater shooting rampage, gave birth to a baby boy in the same Aurora hospital in which her husband was in a medically induced coma with a gunshot wound to the head. Christian Bale, the actor behind the Batman mask in “The Dark Knight Rises,” visited victims in the same hospital.

A pregnant Amish woman picking berries in the woods near her Pennsylvania home was killed by lightning on her due date. The fetus also died.

Monsignor William Lynn, the highest-ranking clergyman convicted in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church scandal, was sentenced to up to six years in prison for covering up child sex abuse by priests in Philadelphia.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder declared an energy emergency due to temporary shortages of gasoline and diesel fuel in parts of the Upper Peninsula caused by the shutdown of a leaking pipeline in Wisconsin.

Last month’s Supreme Court ruling that upheld President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law could save the U.S. government some $84 billion over 11 years, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said in a report.

Compiled by Gazette staff from a variety

of sources.