• Brandon Klotter, 14, of Harrison, Ohio, was awarded one of the Boy Scouts' highest honors, the National Medal of Merit, for helping save another Scout who suffered broken ribs and other injuries when he was pinned by a fallen tree at camp.
• Trevor Bello was arrested in an attempted dine-and-dash over sushi after, Bannock County, Idaho, authorities said, a waitress at Chang's Garden restaurant in Pocatello thought Bello fit the description of a person who dined and dashed after ordering sushi at a different restaurant a week earlier.
• Rondell Tony Chinuhuk of Anchorage, Alaska, didn't get very far, Fairbanks police said, when he attempted to steal a grocery store's $2,500 motorized shopping cart that has a top speed of 1.9 mph.
• Antonio Pryor, 25, a cabdriver in Georgia, had to drive himself about 3 miles to a hospital after, authorities said, he went to an apartment complex in Macon to pick up a customer, and a man in a ski mask approached the driver's window and shot him in the chest.
• Charles Schneider, a judge in Franklin County, Ohio, refused to vacate the 90-day jail sentence of Sheila Kearns, a 61-year-old substitute teacher fired after showing Spanish-class students at a Columbus high school The ABCs of Death, an R-rated film with graphic sex and violence.
• Charles Jacob Bridges, 18, who was arrested after his stepfather, Gary James Stone, 51, was found dismembered in several containers under a South Carolina home, said he attacked Stone after Stone fought with his mother.
• David Byers, 35, a Californian who once modeled for the covers of romance novels, faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to robbing a Chase Bank twice and a Citgo gas station in Greenwich, Conn., in April.
• David Reichert of the Fairborn, Ohio, Fire Department said a firefighter-paramedic driving a suspected overdose patient to the hospital began showing symptoms of an overdose himself -- which can happen from exposure to an opioid -- and his partner had to take the wheel of the ambulance to get the two to a hospital, where they recovered.
• Jason Starkey, owner of Takoda Green Roofing in Omaha, Neb., estimated that he collected 40 pounds of honey as he removed thousands of honeybees from an attic they had invaded, producing so much honey that it dripped down the side of the house.
A Section on 11/12/2017