• Henry Wakley of Blacksburg, Va., troubled by the litter along a 1.5-mile stretch of highway, donned a Darth Vader costume as he picked up trash, causing drivers to honk, wave and, sometimes, stop to take pictures.
• Edward Snowden, 33, in exile in Moscow after leaking U.S. National Security Agency documents, said he plans to vote in the U.S. presidential election but did not say which candidate he favors, saying individuals should never feel obligated to discuss their vote.
• Maurizio Cattelan, an Italian artist, replaced the toilet in the fourth-floor restroom at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum with a fully functional replica cast in 18-karat gold and is encouraging visitors to use the toilet as they would any other facility.
• Justin Thomas, a firefighter in Park Hills, Mo., said firefighters found a month-old puppy stuck about 4 feet down a sewage drain, breaking up about 18 inches of pipe before they could reach the dog.
• Tasha Sims, 33, was charged in Pompano Beach, Fla., with child neglect, drug possession and other counts after putting marijuana in her young niece's lunchbox to hide it during a traffic stop, according to the Broward County sheriff's office.
• Kate Rubins, a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station, chatted via video link with several child cancer patients at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston while wearing a hand-painted spacesuit they helped decorate.
• Joe Nigro, the public defender for Lancaster County, Neb., said Nebraska ought to follow the lead of other states by decriminalizing marijuana and regulating its distribution because, in his view, prohibition has failed and the state's criminal justice system shouldn't be used to treat a health concern.
• Joe Allbaugh, director of the Oklahoma Corrections Department, said some inmates at a halfway house in Oklahoma City could get longer sentences after officers found a false wall with an "escape hatch" that inmates used to sneak out.
• Marcella Lee, 56, who had been sought by Goldsboro, N.C., police for three months, was arrested on a charge of failing to report a death after her mother's corpse was found in a freezer she sold for $30 in a yard sale earlier this year, telling the buyer not to open it until church members came for its contents.
A Section on 09/17/2016