In the news

■ Pope Francis, after he was handed the keys to a $217,000 Lamborghini, decided to sell the sports car at auction with the proceeds going to charities, including one helping to rebuild Christian communities in Iraq devastated by the Islamic State group.

■ Jim Gray, the mayor of Lexington, Ky., got a letter from federal highway officials saying that a rainbow-colored crosswalk honoring the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, is a distracting safety hazard and should be removed.

■ Noor Salman, wife of Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 people at a Florida nightclub before being shot to death by police, wants the FBI to release any evidence it has about her husband lying about visiting a friend so he could see women he’d met on dating websites.

■ Melvin Brown, 19, of Bordentown, N.J., who was captured in a video posted online dancing to a hip-hop song in a supermarket parking lot, is now looking for a woman standing nearby who responded by busting a move of her own in the background.

■ Edward Rocha alerted Manchester, N.H., police officer Jared Yaris, who was at a nearby construction site, that a car had struck a utility pole, and the two men rushed to the vehicle, broke a window to pull out the unconscious driver and performed CPR until an emergency crew arrived.

■ Anne Baud, a French archaeologist, called it an “exceptional discovery” when a team uncovered a 12th-century treasure at the Cluny Abbey that included more than 2,000 silver and gold coins but added that it’s still a mystery about why the trove was hidden.

■ Yinyan Wang, 25, a Chinese citizen arrested on visa and passport fraud charges, is facing additional counts after officials said she took the graduate school exam in Boston several times for other people, including another Chinese citizen.

■ Scott Hughes was fired from his job as a forensic technician for the St. Petersburg, Fla., police after shooting out a window when he accidentally fired his personal AR-15 rifle as he unloaded it in his office at police headquarters.

■ Alexis Gregory, 81, an art collector and book publisher who invited more than two dozen people to a party at his Manhattan apartment, told New York police that someone left with about $1 million in artwork, including several gold figurines dating to the 16th century.