In the news

• Riley Allen Mullins, 28, was charged with second-degree robbery after a woman he added as a friend on Facebook identified him as the man who struck her on the head and stole her purse at a Washington state ferry terminal a day earlier, police said.

• Chuck Jones, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said a mysterious presence that showed up on Albuquerque, N.M.'s radar for several nights turned out to be a swarm of grasshoppers that got caught up in winds and was being carried as high as 1,000 feet.

• Miyo Koba, 89, a storekeeper in Moses Lake, Wash., used a golf club to chase away a sword-wielding robber, who fled on a BMX bike after taking money from the store's cash register.

• Charlie Gauvin, 18, the class president at Portland High School in Maine, was replaced as a speaker at his graduation because of a Facebook post in which he urged classmates to take nonalcoholic drinks to a "senior skip day" outing "because some wusses need chasers" for their alcoholic beverages.

• Harrison Bowe, 19, a graduate of Bellaire High School in Houston, was awarded his diploma in a ceremony at the hospital where he is recovering from emergency surgery after an abdominal infection and said he "felt honored ... all these people are going out of their way to graduate me."

• Joe Grice, the chief economic adviser to Britain's Office of National Statistics, said prostitution and the import, manufacture and consumption of illegal drugs will be included in official estimates of the country's gross domestic product, because "as economies develop and evolve, so do the statistics we use to measure them."

• Andrew Truelove, 28, a Virginia man who said he does not believe the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut took place, was charged in the theft of memorial signs dedicated to victims of the rampage.

• Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina called for ending the Atlantic Beach Bikefest after three people were shot and killed at the Memorial Day event, but Atlantic Beach's mayor said the town has no plans to stop the motorcycle rally, which primarily attracts black bikers.

• James Voutour, the sheriff of Niagara County, N.Y., said a deputy investigating reports of vandalized flags at Cold Springs Cemetery caught a groundhog taking a flag, breaking it apart with its paws and then dragging it into its den.

A Section on 06/01/2014

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