Bomber Bust: Police in Bangkok have arrested a 28-year-old foreigner believed to be responsible for a bombing two weeks ago at the Erawan Shrine that killed 20 people. Police said they found bomb making materials and 10 passports in the man’s apartment. The suspect is refusing to cooperate, police said. They said they do not believe the bombing was an act of international terrorism, but rather some kind of personal grievance.

World: Three Al Jazeera journalists were sentenced yesterday in an Egyptian court to three years in prison for working without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt. The three are Mohamed Fahmy, a naturalized Canadian who gave up his Egyptian citizenship, Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian, and Peter Greste, an Australian deported in February who was tried in absentia. Baher got an extra six months for being in possession of a bullet at the time of his arrest.

The three were arrested in December 2013 in a room at the Cairo Marriott they were using as a workspace.

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, who represented the journalists, said after the sentencing that, “It sends a message that journalists can be locked up for simply doing their job, for telling the truth and reporting the news. And it sends a dangerous message that there are judges in Egypt who will allow their courts to become instruments of political repression and propaganda.”

Nation: The first black actor to play Jean Valjean in the long-running Broadway musical “Les Misérables” died in New York falling off a fire escape. Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, had been an understudy to the role. Police said he had been sitting on a fire escape with a female friend, stood up, and fell backward to the street. Jean-Baptiste had said that the first time he appeared as Valjean he had lived his dream.

>The Associated Press reports that Los Angeles has made a deal with the US Olympic Committee to make a bid for hosting the 2024 summer Olympics. Last month the USOC gave up on Boston, which couldn’t pull together the political and popular support to make a bid.

The Obit Page: Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who studied the idiosyncrasies of the brain and the nature of consciousness, has died of cancer at age 82. Sachs made his studies popular with the public through case studies like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.” He came to national attention with his 1973 book “Awakenings” about treating victims of encephalitis who had been left in a catatonic state.

He wrote, “I was fascinated by my patients there, cared for them deeply, and felt something of a mission to tell their stories — stories of situations virtually unknown, almost unimaginable, to the general public and, indeed, to many of my colleagues. He said, “Almost unconsciously, I became a storyteller at a time when medical narrative was almost extinct.”

Furlongs: The easy running Triple Crown winner American Pharoah was disappointed yesterday in his run at the Travers Stakes at Saratoga. The horse that appeared to win racing’s big three with ease ran out of gas in the closing stretch and finished second.

Tracking Numbers: Jumping into the competition of Republican big ideas, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie yesterday proposed a system like FedEx package tracking to keep tabs on immigrants in the United States. Christie said, “At any moment, FedEx can tell you where that package is. It’s on the truck. It’s at the station. It’s on the airplane,” he told a crowd in Laconia, NH “Yet we let people come to this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them.”

Christie said he would consult with the chief of FedEx to devise the system, but we’d like to suggest that he talk to the people at Zappos for easy returns.

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