• President Barack Obama is returning to Washington, D.C., in the middle of his two-week Martha’s Vineyard vacation for unspecified meetings with Vice President Joe Biden and other advisers.
• Amanda Hall, 24, of San Luis Obispo, Calif., was cited for harassment of zoo animals after climbing into the giraffe exhibit at a Madison, Wis., zoo and getting kicked in the face by 2-year-old, 12-foot-tall Wally, who licked Hall before striking.
• Kim McMillan, the mayor of Clarksville, Tenn., said residents around Fort Campbell, Ky., can sign pre-written letters or write their own to the U.S. Army, which said in July that the base could lose half of its workforce of 16,000, in an effort to stave off the cuts at the post that straddles the states’ border.
• Rolf Buchholz, a German man who holds the Guinness World Records mark for most piercings with 453, was refused entry into Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to appear at the Cirque Le Soir nightclub because of unidentified security reasons.
• Paul Michael Daniels, 40, a confessed hit man who was one of two people paid to kill a New Jersey rabbi’s wife in 1994, is scheduled to be released from prison Oct. 31, one day before the 20th anniversary of Carol Neulander’s death, after spending more than 14 years in jail for aggravated manslaughter.
• Carlos Slim, a Mexican billionaire, said during a speech in Houston that establishing an investment firm or company to work with small- and medium-sized Hispanic businesses in need of financing would better the plight of Hispanic workers and businesses.
• Bernard Reeves, 64, of Toledo, Ohio, who has advanced-stage Alzheimer’s disease, beamed as he gave his daughter, Miriam Davis, away during a ceremony at the Foundation Park Alzheimer’s Care Center after Davis changed the venue of her wedding so Reeves could walk her down the aisle.
• Mariano Verrico of Essex Fells, N.J., gave Philadelphia police a video he shot that shows a skateboarder kicking a city park ranger while others stand by laughing at Love Park, after the ranger warned them to stop skateboarding because too many children were in the area.
• Jeff Sims, a captain with the Los Angeles Fire Department, said a man, 85, was unharmed after he drove his car through a rear garage door and into a backyard swimming pool, where the car fully submerged, in Altadena, Calif.