• The Very Rev. Kelvin Holdsworth, an Anglican cleric and gay-rights campaigner, is urging people to pray that Prince George -- age 4, and third in line to the British throne -- will advance the cause of same-sex marriage by finding the love "of a fine young gentleman" when he grows up.
• Ted Turner, the media mogul, wants to sell St. Phillips Island, a 4,700-acre barrier island near Beaufort, S.C., that he's owned since 1979, to the state for $5 million, millions of dollars less than the asking price of $24 million, to help a popular but eroding state park.
• Delonda Walker, manager of a McDonald's restaurant in Tampa, Fla., will get a $110,000 reward for tipping off police about an employee who was later arrested on charges that he killed four people and terrorized a Florida neighborhood, police said.
• Ted Talbot, a Maine Department of Transportation spokesman, said investigators have had no luck identifying a hit-and-run driver who caused $3 million in damage, including a large dent and crack, by striking a highway overpass in Augusta in October.
• Marlon Brannan, a middle school principal in Enterprise, Miss., said a doe deer darted into the school and raced past arriving students, bloodying its nose when it tried to jump out a window before rushing outside through an open door.
• Tom Ross, assistant police chief in Cohoes, N.Y., said amateur knife-maker John Gomes, 51, trying to imitate a technique he saw on television, sparked a fire that destroyed three downtown buildings and damaged 18 others, resulting in his arrest on arson and other charges.
• Bill Messerich, police chief of South St. Paul, Minn., said he was "quite shocked" to get $1,000 and a letter asking forgiveness from an anonymous driver who admitted speeding off after hitting a parked car more than 30 years ago.
• Eric Wallace, a Redding, Calif., police captain, said people looking for a Christmas tree found a partially clothed 25-year-old woman who said she had been beaten and abandoned a day earlier by two acquaintances who accused her of stealing drugs.
• Connie Lipton of St. Paul, Minn., said that despite being grounded for repeatedly sneaking into the Macalester College library, her orange-and-white tabby named Max is now a social media sensation after library workers put up a wanted-type poster asking patrons, "Please do not let in the cat."
A Section on 12/02/2017