• Harris Faulkner, a television anchor for Fox News, filed a lawsuit against toy-maker Hasbro seeking $5 million in damages over a toy hamster that shares her name, saying it harms her professional credibility as a journalist.
• Marko Markovich, who was convicted along with two other men of reckless endangerment and other misdemeanors after parachute-jumping from the top of New York City's under-construction One World Trade Center in 2013, was sentenced to 300 hours of community service and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine.
• Tim Leslie, sheriff of Dakota County, Minn., said he stands behind a deputy who cited two state legislators, Reps. Tim Kelly and Tara Mack, for causing a public nuisance after the deputy said he found them making out in a car at a park.
• Jen Henderson of Columbia, Mo., won't get a chance to be the only voter in a proposed sales-tax election in the city's downtown business district after district leaders canceled the election because of her opposition to the proposed increase.
• Freeman Hatch, 36, was nabbed by police in Kennebunk, Maine, and charged with criminal mischief and drug possession, accused of spray-painting images of the mythical Sasquatch on public property around town.
• Dannel Malloy, the governor of Connecticut, found himself upstaged by a white beluga whale named Juno, who pressed his head to the glass wall of his tank at the Mystic Aquarium behind Malloy as the governor used the tank as a backdrop to tout an upswing in tourism to the state.
• Ronda Rousey, the mixed martial arts star, will attend the Marine Corps Ball with Jarrod Haschert, a 22-year-old Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C., after Haschert posted a video invitation to Rousey on Facebook that was viewed 4.8 million times.
• Dan Green, a circuit judge in Cole County, Mo., ruled that the state's new constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to farm doesn't protect a woman charged with illegally growing marijuana in her basement, saying the amendment applies only to livestock and "legitimate" crops.
• Justin Michael Clum, 21, of Pasadena, Md., was charged with three counts of attempted murder, arson and other offenses after police said he burned down a Maryland house in a jealous rage and then returned to the site to take selfies in front of the ruins.
A Section on 09/03/2015