In the news
Caitlyn Jenner, 65, who won Olympic gold competing as Bruce Jenner, can now use her transgender identity on legal documents such as a driver’s license and Social Security card after a California judge approved her request to formally change her name and gender.
Marge Montague and her husband, Richard, of Lee Township, Mich., had nearly forgotten about the Remington Nylon 66 .22-caliber rifle that was stolen from their home three decades ago until it was recovered by police in Covington, Tenn., and returned to them.
Bill Cosby, 78, the comedian and actor accused of sexual assault by more than 50 women, can no longer claim honorary degrees from Marquette and Fordham universities after the boards of trustees at both Jesuit schools voted to rescind the degrees.
Matthew Murraine of Spearfish, S.D., wants to know who swiped a 100-pound pumpkin that he was growing in his yard, telling police that the perpetrators brazenly backed up to his house and used a saw to cut the stem so it could be hauled away.
John Sain, 50, of Riverside, Calif., crawled for nearly four days with a broken leg after tripping on a log and falling during an elk-hunting trip before being found by two motorcyclists on a remote path in Idaho’s Salmon-Challis National Forest.
Steve North, 74, owner of the 80-year-old building in Madison, Tenn., that served as the headquarters of Col. Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager, said he hasn’t been able to find the right buyer for the building, where Parker lived and worked, even though it’s been on the market for several years.
Nathan Campbell, 40, of Colorado, who was convicted of second-degree murder and other charges for killing a pedestrian and injuring 17 others when he drove through Los Angeles’ Venice Beach Boardwalk in 2013, was sentenced to 42 years to life in prison.
Joseph Patton, 35, of Warren County, Miss., was arrested on a charge that he killed his uncle with a 26-inch camping ax after sheriff’s deputies reviewed video from a nearby Home Depot that they said showed the suspect buying an ax.
Brian Kruse, a Delta Airlines spokesman, said baggage handlers searched for and found a spider in a plane’s cargo hold at Baltimore Washington International Airport after a baboon tarantula’s escape from its container grounded the plane and rerouted passengers to other flights.