Human Race

Canceled

Cable channel TLC officially axed the reality show featuring the Duggar family, 19 Kids and Counting, on July 16. The show chronicled the Arkansas homeschool family’s home life for 10 seasons before revelations this summer that eldest son Josh had molested five children, including four of his sisters, when he was a young teen. In a statement, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar credited God with bringing healing to their family and expressed hope their story will help others in “similar dark situations.” The Duggars are working with TLC on a documentary to raise awareness about child sexual abuse.

Convicted

A Colorado jury on July 16 found James Holmes guilty of the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting. Holmes, 27, killed 12 and wounded dozens more, bringing 165 criminal counts that took his judge nearly an hour to read. The defense had argued the neuroscience Ph.D. student was insane: In taped interviews presented at trial, Holmes said he felt nothing during the shooting, in which he drowned out his victims’ cries with earphones and techno music. Holmes faces either life in prison or death.

Resigned

Julie Rodgers, a ministry associate for spiritual care in the chaplain’s office of Wheaton College, resigned her position after writing on July 13 that she could no longer advocate gay celibacy. Rodgers, who has spoken of her own same-sex attraction while remaining celibate, had ministry responsibilities regarding students generally, along with the special task of counseling students in Refuge, a community group at Wheaton for students with same-sex attraction.

Sentenced

A German court ruled July 15 that a 94-year-old former Nazi, Oskar Groening, should spend four years in prison for being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews. Groening served as an SS sergeant at Auschwitz and admitted to “moral guilt” for overseeing the looting of victims’ belongings at the concentration camp. German prosecutors the same day indicted a 92-year-old former Auschwitz guard. The guard, then 19, will be tried in juvenile court.

Poisoned

A Detroit-area judge sentenced Dr. Farid Fata to 45 years in prison on July 10 for giving 553 patients inappropriate cancer drugs in order to earn insurance money. Federal prosecutors called him the “most egregious fraudster in the history of this country.” Fata gave patients in eastern Michigan strong chemotherapy drugs even when they had no cancer, or had the wrong cancer type. Many patients experienced permanent disabilities and deformities. “I … permitted this sin to enter me because of power and greed,” said Fata, 50, who pleaded guilty in September. He forfeits $17.6 million he received from taxpayers and private insurers.

Survived

Autumn Veatch, 16, reached safety July 13 after living through a plane crash in a Washington state wilderness. Two days earlier, the Beech A35 carrying Veatch and her step-grandparents collided with one of the North Cascades Mountains while flying through clouds. She was unable to rescue her step-grandparents as fire engulfed the plane. With minor burns and muscle damage, Veatch spent two nights in the elements, following widening streams until she found a bridge. Veatch told CNN her recent struggles with depression look different in light of a newfound respect and love for life.

Arrested

Authorities took a Boston police captain’s son, Alexander Ciccolo, 23, into custody in early July for what they say was a plan to commit domestic terrorism. Capt. Robert Ciccolo reportedly alerted the FBI that his estranged son had expressed a desire to join the Islamic State, or ISIS. The young Ciccolo’s alleged plans included building a pressure cooker bomb in the style of the Boston Marathon bombing. In a postarrest interview, Ciccolo claimed the Islamic State is “freeing people from oppression.”

Died

Hans H. Angermueller, a banker whose international dealings helped free hostages in Iran, died July 11 at age 90. As a Citicorp executive in the 1980s, Angermueller monitored Iran as lawsuits over the country’s debt raged and helped draw up a secret plan to use Iran’s frozen assets in Europe to pay its creditors in exchange for hostages. He later lobbied the International Monetary Fund during a debt crisis in Latin America that put American banks in jeopardy.

Died

Former Alabama police officer Bonard Fowler, whose killing of a protester led to the famous 1965 Selma march, died July 5 at age 81. Protesters challenging segregation in Marion, Ala., on Feb. 18, 1965, were face-to-face with law enforcement when the streetlights went dark and a mêlée erupted. Fowler twice shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old, African-American church deacon. Fowler publicly acknowledged he fired the shots in a 2005 interview, but claimed self-defense. He later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and spent five months in prison in 2010.

Fractured

Former President George H.W. Bush faces three to four months in a neck brace after falling at his summer home on July 15. The 91-year-old fractured the C2 vertebra in his neck, just below the skull, but never lost consciousness and suffered no neurological effects. William D’Angelo, his neurosurgeon at a Maine hospital, said Bush was in good spirits. The oldest living former president has a form of Parkinson’s disease and regularly uses a wheelchair.

By the numbers

46 | The number of drug offenders who had their prison sentences commuted by President Obama on July 13. Fourteen had been serving life sentences.

117 | The number of valedictorians, out of a class of 457, at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va. Many schools are reportedly recognizing multiple valedictorians, and others are eliminating the distinction entirely.

238,647 | The number of veterans on a waiting list to receive medical care from the Department of Veterans Affairs who have already died, according to an internal department report.