In the news
■ Scott Bolton wonders what it would be like to snowboard off one of the peaks he and other NASA scientists saw in the latest images of Jupiter’s moon Io taken by the Juno spacecraft — photos that he said made the orb look like a pepperoni pizza.
■ Gale Brewer, a New York City Council member, says she’s “ecstatic” after members of West Park Presbyterian Church withdrew their request to demolish the landmark 19th century Manhattan building — a preservation fight backed by celebrities such as actors Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo.
■ Steve Scalise, the U.S. House majority leader suffering from blood cancer, will be away from Washington for a stem cell transplant, his staff says, with the Louisiana congressman returning to the capital next month.
■ Jad Sleiman, a standup comedian, got his old job back as a reporter at a Philadelphia NPR station after an arbitrator ruled some of the jokes he posted on social media really were funny and that management “rushed to judgment” in terminating him over “inflammatory” content.
■ Paul Irwin, the police chief in Leeds, Ala., says a 42-year-old man faces charges after crashing his car outside a Bass Pro Shop, stripping naked and doing a cannonball into the store’s aquarium where he frolicked about five minutes before officers arrived.
■ Keith Fagiana admitted to authorities that he drank some “Captain Morgans” at several bars before boarding a Dallas-Fort Worth flight to Bozeman, Mont., that was diverted to Amarillo when, witnesses said, Fagiana assaulted a flight attendant and later kicked a police officer in the groin.
■ Alex Crow has been removed from the priesthood at his own request, according to the Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile, Ala., after he left the country this summer with an 18-year-old recent graduate of a high school where Crow had heard confession and whom he later married.
■ Bob Young got two years probation for the domestic violence case involving his wife that preceded his resignation from the Ohio Legislature under pressure from fellow Republican lawmakers. Brittani Frierson says her life has been forever changed by the fatal shooting of her 10-year-old son, KJ, by another child the same age after the two Sacramento, Calif., boys argued over a bicycle race that the killer lost.