• Michael Kirby, a former judge on Australia's High Court and a leading gay-rights advocate, urged Parliament to prevent a nationwide election on legalizing same-sex marriage, writing in The Australian that a popular vote against it would likely set back the cause of marriage equality by decades.
• Charee Stanley, an ExpressJet Airlines flight attendant who has been on unpaid leave since last year because she refused to serve alcohol to passengers, has sued the company, saying it failed to accommodate her Islamic faith.
• Johnathan Serrano, a soldier who stole more than $120,000 worth of night-vision technology from Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and got his cousin and another person to sell the items on eBay, was sentenced to six months in prison.
• Amina El-Zayat, 36, of DeLand, Fla., was charged with aggravated battery, contributing to the delinquency of minors and child neglect after police said she allowed her three sons to shoot BBs from airsoft rifles at a homeless man who was picking through garbage at a gas station.
• Hugh Anderson, police chief of Charles City, Iowa, said that as crews moved rail cars and changed connections, a freight train car derailed and damaged a trackside tavern called DeRailed.
• Michelle Brideaux of the United Way of Otero County, N.M., said the affiliate has suspended a planned raffle of more than 100 firearms, after its support organization, United Way Worldwide, sent a cease-and-desist letter stating that the raffle would violate its bylaws.
• Mitchell Cleve Williams, 35, an American in Ecuador, was playing Pokemon Go in a park in the city of Guayaquil when two robbers demanded his phone, then shot and seriously wounded him when he resisted.
• Emma Wiley, a student at Salem State University in Massachusetts, pleaded innocent to mayhem, assault and other charges, accused of biting off part of the ear of a female police officer who had been on the force barely a month and was arresting Wiley after a reported fight outside a city bar.
• Jens Rommel, head of a German special prosecutors office that looks into Nazi war crimes, said his office tracked down eight people said to have worked at the Stutthof concentration camp, where 65,000 people died during World War II, and is considering charging them as accessories to murder.
A Section on 08/10/2016