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Carlos Reyes, 46, of Manchester, N.H., faces a robbery charge after surrendering to police at the scene of a convenience-store heist in which the clerk said Reyes wielded a sharp rock but apologized while taking cash.

Jillian Sobol, 31, who was abandoned as a newborn in a dorm at San Francisco State University, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in hospitality and tourism management from the same school.

Kent Ingle, president of Southeastern University in Florida, said the joy of watching Texan Candace Payne laughing hysterically as she tries on a Chewbacca mask in an online video inspired the school to offer her and her family full-tuition scholarships.

Maggie McMuffin, the stage name used by a 26-year-old burlesque dancer, said that JetBlue employees ordered her to change out of her high-waisted short shorts or she wouldn’t be allowed on a flight from Boston to Seattle.

Robert Borsak, a member of Australia’s Shooters and Fishers Party and a New South Wales lawmaker who has been at odds with animal-welfare groups, said in a speech that he has not only killed an elephant but eaten one, though “not in one sitting.”

Dixon Woodbury, the physiology department chairman at Brigham Young University in Utah, told professor Jason Hansen that he can no longer offer students the chance to drink what they think is real urine in class as part of a lesson on hydration and dehydration.

Anusorn Noochdumrong of Thailand’s Department of National Parks said 40 dead tiger cubs were found in a freezer at a Buddhist temple that operated as an admission-charging zoo and has been accused of tiger trafficking.

Jordan Thiering, a Mississippi woman, won a court order allowing her to keep the placenta after she gives birth, saying she wants to turn it into capsules to take for the health benefits.

Tony Bowlen, deputy police chief for Ellettsville, Ind., said six Indiana churchgoers ranging in age from 12 to 70 were hospitalized and later tested positive for THC, the psychoactive component in marijuana, after eating cookies given to them by a fellow congregant.

Ali Al Hakami, a scholar on a panel that advises the Saudi king, has issued a fatwa, or decree, against using another person’s Wi-Fi connection without permission, since theft cannot be tolerated in Islam.