• Lance Bass, who was a member of boy band 'NSync, tweeted that Lou Pearlman, 62, who died in prison while serving a 25-year sentence for a Ponzi scheme but is credited with starting the boy-band craze in the 1990s, "might not have been a [stand-up] businessman, but I wouldn't be doing what I love today without his influence."
• Omran Daqneesh, a 5-year-old Syrian boy whose image was circulated worldwide after his rescue from a building hit by an airstrike on a rebel-held Aleppo neighborhood, has lost his 10-year-old brother, Ali, activists and news reports say, after Ali died from wounds from the same airstrike.
• Elizabeth Sutton, executive director of the Union Station Foundation in Ogden, Utah, said the foundation will not allow the Sea Bears Ogden Fish House's trademark kilt-clad servers to openly carry firearms after the eatery relocated to the station.
• Av Harris, spokesman for Bridgeport, Conn., police, said police are investigating a house-party shooting in which 13 people were wounded, and thus far investigators believe two shooters were posted behind hedges surrounding the home's backyard.
• Eleanor Holmes Norton, a delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the District of Columbia who was the first woman to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and has served 12 terms in Congress, has won the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award presented by the Birmingham, Ala., Civil Rights Institute.
• Sheriff Brian Cruze of Meeker County, Minn., said authorities found the body of a 5-year-old girl in Cass County, Minn., just hours after they had issued an Amber Alert saying she had been abducted by a family friend, who has since been arrested.
• Colby Leeper of Kansas, whose father was slain nearly eight years ago in a hotel parking lot, has won a $1,500 scholarship to attend Missouri Southern State University in Joplin from a nonprofit run by death row inmates.
• Danelle Geier, 32, is the second person charged in the death of Penn State professor Ronald Bettig, 56, who police say fell 80 feet after he was pushed off a cliff at a quarry because, authorities say, the two suspects thought they would gain financially from a will Bettig recently signed.
• Mayor Ethan Berkowitz of Anchorage, Alaska, was among 300 people who participated in a United Way of Anchorage event to raise awareness of homelessness through a fist-bump chain, which broke a world record.
A Section on 08/22/2016