• Brianna Siegel, a waitress at a bar in Woodbridge, N.J., said she nearly fell to her knees when she opened an envelope containing both a $1,200 check that a couple gave her after they paid their $20 tab and a note saying: "Whenever it gets hard, know God got you."
• Alexander Acosta, the U.S. secretary of labor, said former President Ronald Reagan, who led Hollywood's Screen Actors Guild in the 1940s and '50s through contract talks and three strikes, will be inducted into the Labor Department's Hall of Honor.
• Annette Nesbitt, 34, whose car was pulled over after she picked up her daughter from school, told police in Lady Lake, Fla., that she was "a terrible, horrible mom" and to "just take me to jail," and was subsequently arrested for drunken driving, a police affidavit said.
• Paul Grimaldi, a spokesman for Rhode Island's Motor Vehicles Division, said a computer glitch sent out more than 700 letters threatening license and registration suspensions to drivers mistakenly accused of failing to get mandatory vehicle safety inspections.
• Eddie Johnson, Chicago's police superintendent, while meeting with reporters to talk about the thousands of illegal guns his department has seized this year, announced that his wait on a transplant list is over because his 25-year-old son, Daniel, is donating a kidney to him.
• Luis Eudoro Valencia, 18, of Perris, Calif., faces a smuggling charge after U.S. agents confiscated a Bengal tiger cub that he bought for $300 in Tijuana, Mexico, and was found in his car at a border crossing south of San Diego.
• William Peebles, headmaster of a private K-12 school in Atlanta, said five students were suspended and two others barred from school activities for two weeks after a photo appeared online of them playing "Jews vs. Nazis" beer pong at an off-campus house party.
• Kara Mullins and Osvaldo "O.J." Jimenez, who met on a New York City bus 13 years ago, exchanged wedding vows on a Manhattan local crosstown bus in a ceremony witnessed by 50 guests and random passengers.
• Rebecca Musarra, a Philadelphia lawyer arrested for not answering an officer's questions during a 2015 traffic stop, will receive $30,000 to settle a lawsuit she filed after a dashboard camera showed New Jersey state troopers advising her that she had the right to remain silent.
A Section on 08/25/2017