• Tim Murphy, 65, an anti-abortion Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, plans to resign from office Oct. 21 after a newspaper reported that he sent text messages to his 32-year-old mistress suggesting that she have an abortion when she mistakenly thought she was pregnant.
• Candace Murray, whose box of baby photos was stolen in a burglary a decade ago, said she was amazed when reporters from The News Herald of Panama City, Fla., found the box, which had been dropped off at the newspaper eight years ago, during a newsroom cleaning and tracked her down.
• Cemil Karabayram, head of the Reliefs and Monuments Authority in Antalya, Turkey, said archaeologists think they may have located the remains of St. Nicholas, from whom the legend of Santa Claus emerged, under a church in the town near where he was born.
• Will Colon, who works at a Mexican restaurant in Hicksville, N.Y., said security cameras show a burglar emptying the cash register and then "cooking up a storm," using beans, chicken and shrimp, then eating, cleaning up and putting away leftovers before he departed.
• Ronald Harrison, 38, faces child-abuse and other counts, accused of leaving his 2-month-old son sitting in a car seat outside a church in Sioux Falls, S.D., overnight as rain fell and temperatures dropped into the 40s.
• Kenneth Mayle, a self-declared satanist, lost in court when a federal judge in Chicago, citing past U.S. Supreme Court rulings, tossed out his lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of having the motto "In God We Trust" on American money.
• Shane Ladner, a former Georgia police officer convicted of getting free license plates by falsely claiming that he had received a military Purple Heart medal, avoided jail time but was ordered to perform 600 hours of community service and pay $6,000 in restitution.
• Jose Ortega, 67, of Raytown, Mo., accused of stabbing his 12-year-old grandson in the arm when the boy refused to give him a doughnut, was charged with domestic assault and armed criminal action, police said.
• William Verbeck, 63, of Morrisdale, Pa., was sentenced to up to a year in jail and ordered to pay $7,400 in restitution after pleading guilty to setting his truck on fire in a scheme to cover up the theft of raffle ticket stubs and cash raised to benefit a fire department.
A Section on 10/06/2017