In the news

• Chris McDaniel, the Tea Party-backed candidate defeated by U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in Mississippi's Republican primary, said that he has formally challenged the election's outcome with the state GOP.

• Dale Cohen, a judge in Broward County, Fla., became the third in the state to overturn Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, adding to similar decisions in two other counties, but stayed his decision pending an appeal.

• Anwan Glover, 41, an actor known for his role as the gangster Slim Charles on the HBO television series The Wire, was stabbed in a District of Columbia nightclub and treated for a laceration on the right side of his torso.

• Buddy Roemer, 70, the Republican former Louisiana governor who made an unsuccessful 2012 attempt at a third-party candidacy for president, suffered a "small stroke" about four weeks ago, but is back at work and recovering, said his son, Chas Roemer, who is president of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

• Roberto Alcaraz-Garnica, 25, of San Diego was arrested at Jay Z's and Beyonce's Rose Bowl concert in Southern California on suspicion of sexual battery and mayhem, accused of groping a woman and then biting off the tip of the finger of the woman's boyfriend during a fight.

• Kirby-Lynn Shedlow--ski, a park spokesman at the Grand Canyon, said authorities are looking into a viral Internet video that shows a man kicking a squirrel off what appears to be the edge of the canyon but believe the chances of finding the man are slim.

• Ben Sikkenga, 23, and wife, Courtney, 24, were married at a western Michigan ice rink, where they first met in seventh grade, and left the rink by walking under raised hockey sticks.

• Eric Mueller, 16, defeated 5-year-old incumbent Robert "Bobby" Tufts in the mayoral race in the tiny Minnesota tourist town of Dorset, which has no formal city government and a population ranging from nine to 28.

• Ronald Avers, 68, a Belleville, Ill., man accused of inserting sewing needles that a federal prosecutor called "booby traps" into packaged meats at his hometown supermarket, was ordered to remain jailed pending his trial.

• Nyerere Mitchell, 50, of Clinton, Md., a man who prosecutors say dressed as a female cabdriver, pleaded guilty in Washington to talking drunken passengers into giving him their ATM cards and PINs and withdrawing hundreds of dollars from their accounts instead of the fares of $10 to $40.

A Section on 08/05/2014

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