• Seth Owen, 18, co-valedictorian of his Jacksonville, Fla., high school class who was kicked out by his parents because he is gay, will attend Georgetown University at no cost and hopes to use nearly $130,000 raised online on his behalf to create scholarships for students in similar circumstances.
• Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's prime minister, who gave birth June 21 to become the second elected world leader in recent history to give birth while holding office, has returned to work after taking six weeks of parental leave to care for her newborn daughter, Neve.
• Ruth Reed, who said she first thought she was helping a down-and-out man pay for his gas station food, ended up footing the bill for country music star Keith Urban, who made a stop on his way to a concert in Camden, N.J., and was short a few dollars.
• Carlton Young of Sanford, Maine, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other charges for frightening a 62-year-old woman by knocking on her windows and doors at the outset of a burglary, causing her to have a fatal heart attack.
• Matt Majors, an investigator with Tennessee's wildlife agency, said filmmaker Bobby Stone, 57, a partner and co-founder of video production company Atomic Films until he retired, hit his head and drowned when he slipped between two houseboats and fell into Lake Chickamauga.
• Greg Skomal, a Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries biologist, had an up-close-and-personal experience with a great white shark when one breached the water and jumped up toward Skomal with its jaws open as he stood on the extended bow of a research vessel during a tagging trip.
• Peter Berndt, a German police spokesman, said two elderly men who disappeared from their retirement home were found "disoriented and dazed" 25 miles away at Wacken Open Air, a days-long heavy metal music festival held near Hamburg.
• Timothy Hochstedler of Colon, Mich., has dubbed his new $5 horse-and-buggy ride-hailing service the "Amish Uber" even though he doesn't have a phone app and customers have to flag him down for a ride.
• Andrew Haffenden, an Audubon researcher in Alabama, said hundreds of protected least terns died unhatched when a group of beachgoers moved eggs and scared adults away from nests to make room for a beach volleyball court on coastal Sand Island.
A Section on 08/07/2018