In the news

■ President Barack Obama said in Washington that he had wondered whether he had become a victim of identity theft when his credit card was declined last month as he dined in New York, but added, while at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, “It turned out, I guess I don’t use it enough.”

■ Bill Clinton will head to Baton Rouge for a campaign rally Monday with Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, who is locked in a tight re-election battle in Louisiana against her main Republican opponents, U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy and Tea Party favorite Rob Maness.

■ Mahmoud Abbas , the Palestinian president, suggested in a speech quoted by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa that Jewish “settlers” should be banned from a Jerusalem holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and revered by both religions.

■ Brian Rinda , 28, a homeless man accused of stealing the handles and pipes of toilets in parks and restaurant restrooms around St. Petersburg, Fla., was arrested and charged with eight counts of grand theft and one count of petty theft.

■ Kemberly Patteson , a high school science teacher in Stevenson, Wash., will keep her job but was found by the school district to have used poor judgment in employing a “Wheel of Misfortune” in which students would spin a wheel to find out what their punishment would be for low-level misconduct.

■ Bob Manning , chairman of the management authority at Springdale Cemetery in Peoria, Ill., said a marketing campaign that includes a 5K race and actors dressing as people buried there is intended to encourage people to “think of us when [the] time comes.”

■ Kirra-Belle Olsson , 13, a competitive junior surfer, said a small shark bit her ankle and tried to drag her from her board as she surfed off the Australian east coast, leaving puncture wounds in her foot and a cut on her calf.

■ Justin Ross Harris , a Georgia man accused of intentionally leaving his toddler, 22-month-old Cooper, in a hot vehicle to die in June, pleaded innocent to murder and other charges against him.

■ William Dong , a Connecticut man who prompted a hours-long lockdown at the University of New Haven on Dec. 3, 2013, when he took guns including a semi-automatic rifle to campus, pleaded guilty to weapons charges and faces two years in prison, authorities said.