• Maria Hiaasen called it "bittersweet" and a "lifelong dream" for her husband, Rob Hiaasen, killed in the June shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Maryland, to have his novel, Float Plan, published by Loyola University's Apprentice House Press.
• Michael Caldaroni, assistant fire chief in Bridgeport, Conn., said a woman was hospitalized with hand injuries by an explosion that was set off when she mistook a stick of dynamite for a candle and lit it after her home lost power during a storm.
• Kevin Tate, 47, and Milot Cadichon, 46, two Chicago police officers, face bribery and conspiracy charges after being accused of accepting thousands of dollars from an attorney-referral service in return for the contact information of people involved in traffic accidents.
• Dorsey Hopson, the Shelby County, Tenn., school superintendent, said that online, night and Saturday classes will be held to make up for the time lost when Kirby High School is closed for six to eight weeks so exterminators can deal with a rat, cockroach and snake infestation.
• Chad McIntyre, a police lieutenant in Springfield, Mo., said a driver wounded during a road-rage fight should have sought medical attention rather than follow the other driver long enough for police to take the shooter into custody.
• Gavin Naylor, a Florida shark researcher, said that for the first time DNA from a tooth taken from a boy's leg after a shark bite in New York was used to identify the animal as a sand tiger shark, which he said likely bit the boy by accident as it hunted fish.
• Duc Nguyen, a restaurant owner in New Haven, Conn., was fined $250 for putting up a sign asking people not to let their dogs urinate on a flower pot outside his eatery after city inspectors ruled that the sign was a public nuisance.
• Sergio Medina-Perez, 44, and Miguel Pulido-Maldonado, 27, both Mexican citizens, are facing federal drug charges after they were accused of growing nearly 2,500 marijuana plants in a forest clearing northeast of Kansas City, Mo., prosecutors said.
• Gregory Lazarchick, 56, a New Jersey tourist, apologized but couldn't recall exactly what he said after being arrested on charges of making a false bomb threat after he reportedly told greeters at a Disney World resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., that al-Qaida had sent him to "blow the place up."
A Section on 09/08/2018