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Joseph Kirby, a judge in Warren County, Ohio, ordered a 17-year-old boy to remain in custody after the teen, who has a 3.4 grade-point average and is enrolled in honors courses, was accused of breaking into his high school to cheat on a test.

Jessica Masterson and husband Tom of Springfield, Mo., said their son Owen, who was born with a condition that has led to him having no skull above his eyebrows and ears to protect his brain, celebrated his first birthday, far outliving what doctors had predicted.

Jason Saba, 45, of north Texas, is suing the Tom Thumb supermarket chain after accusing employee Riley Collins, 28, of hitting him in the head with a wine bottle, resulting in several face fractures and a traumatic brain injury.

Kim DeLong, manager of Dartmouth College’s greenhouse, said a rare 15-year-old “corpse flower” that gets its nickname from its putrid smell, which has been described as rotting flesh or soiled diapers, is expected to bloom just in time for Halloween.

Robert Stroud, who, while going through his late mother’s belongings, came across a book she had checked out in 1934 from Shreve Memorial Library in Louisiana, returned the book and, after the $3 maximum fine was waived, donated $1,542.65 to the library, which amounts to a 5 centsper-day late fee.

Daniel Johnston was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1981 slaying of Donna Walker, 20, after prosecutors said he stabbed her nearly 50 times at her Norfolk, Va., home and left a thumbprint on her toilet seat.

Helena Moses and Joseph Fisher, both 27, face animal-cruelty charges after animal control officer Tony Wilbanks responded to an anonymous tip about a mistreated dog at a home near Bryant, Ala., and found two dogs, one described as being so underfed that it was basically skin over bones.