• Gay Polk-Payton, a judge in Forrest County, Miss., can keep calling herself "JudgeCutie" on social media after the Mississippi Supreme Court dismissed a complaint, ruling that neither the nickname nor her other work as a singer and author violate the state's judicial-conduct code.
• Greg Gianforte, Montana's newly elected Republican congressman who pleaded guilty to assaulting a news reporter the night before a May 25 special election, called for civility in politics as he heads to Washington next week to be sworn into office.
• The Dalai Lama, the 81-year-old Buddhist and spiritual leader of Tibet, told a crowd of about 25,000 at the University of California, San Diego, that modern education must focus more on teaching the value of compassion, tolerance and forgiveness.
• Steven Haines, 54, of Mount Union, Pa., was awarded $870,000 by a jury that found that his urologist was "recklessly indifferent" by removing Haines' healthy left testicle during an operation in 2013 meant to remove his chronically painful right testicle.
• Rosalyn Baldwin, 7, of Hammond, La., stopped at the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department as part of her route through the Midwest on her effort to hug police officers in all 50 states, a mission that her mother, Angie, said God sent her daughter on "to spread love."
• Charlie Beck, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, said two boys, ages 15 and 16, and a 17-year-old girl in a program for teenagers interested in becoming officers stole three cruisers and went on patrol around the city before leading authorities on wild pursuits that ended in two crashes.
• Shane Hyde, 29, fleeing police, swam across the Missouri River from Kansas City, Kan., to Riverside, Mo., but had to signal for help when he tried to swim back to the Kansas side after officers approached, resulting in his arrest regarding evidence tampering and resisting arrest.
• Quarshaud Johnson, 19, tried to sell 16 bags of marijuana-laced cereal bars to three minors at a boat launch in Ocean Springs, Miss., resulting in his arrest on drug-possession and -distribution charges, police said.
• Jerry Lynn of Ross, Pa., said an alarm clock he dangled on a string but lost inside the wall of his home as he tried to find the right spot, by the sound of the alarm, to drill a hole for a television cable 13 years ago still rings once a day even though he had expected its batteries to die years ago.
A Section on 06/17/2017