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George H.W. Bush, 93, the nation’s 41st president, was talkative and in good spirits Monday after being discharged from a Biddeford, Maine, hospital after being treated for low blood pressure and fatigue, a spokesman said.

Andrew Boyce, the high school senior class president in Beech Grove, Ind., was barred from the school’s graduation exercise after, officials said, he used “threatening and profane” language in several social media posts that warned he would disrupt the ceremony.

Katherine Johnson, one of the female mathematicians who worked in obscurity at NASA doing calculations that enabled astronauts to return to Earth, is being honored at her alma mater, West Virginia State University, with a bronze statue and a scholarship in her name.

Manuel Zamora, president of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Victoria, Texas, whose church was struck by a car and rendered unusable, said that his congregation will meet at an auxiliary building of a mosque, the Victoria Islamic Center, until they relocate or rebuild.

Kris Kobach, Kansas’ secretary of state and a Republican candidate for governor, said that “snowflake meltdown and outrage culture” won’t force him to back down from criticism over his appearance in a parade atop a Jeep with a replica machine gun mounted on the back.

Sam Heller, spokesman for a Los Angeles auction house, said the 1944 Martin 0-17 guitar that Elvis Presley played in the movie Girls! Girls! Girls! will be offered for private sale after it drew no bids in an auction where it was listed at a beginning bid of $32,000.

Heidi Daniel, president of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, one of the nation’s oldest public library systems, said that as a goodwill gesture it is erasing $186,000 in unpaid overdue book fines for 26,000 people and will no longer charge late fees.

Holly Bartolotta, 50, of New Britain, Conn., already emotional about just having to put her dog down, became angry when her fast food order came out wrong and threw her burger at the cashier, resulting in her arrest for disturbing the peace, police said.

Beth Coleman, a high school principal in Ravenna, Ohio, said Lexi Wright, 19, who has cerebral palsy and was never expected to walk, practiced all year so she could surprise her family by leaving her wheelchair and using a walker to cross a stage to accept her diploma.