• Jon Cluett, his wife and four children were rescued from a lakeside hut in Scotland by the train that stands in for the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter movies, after a storm washed away their canoe and they faced hiking miles over boggy ground back to their car.
• John McCormick, a prosecutor in Coos County, N.H., is trying to reconvene and question jurors over concerns they may have been biased, after one of them was seen hugging Randy Baillargeon, whom the jury acquitted of a negligent homicide charge, in the courthouse parking lot after the trial.
• Gilberto Escaramilla was fired as a juvenile justice department employee in Cameron County, Texas, and charged with theft, with investigators saying he ordered $1.2 million worth of fajitas through the county program, intercepted the deliveries, and then delivered them to his own customers.
• David Cicilline, a Democratic congressman from Rhode Island who played football in his youth, pledged to donate his brain to researchers studying Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, which has been detected after death in more than 200 men and boys who played football.
• John Park faces a terroristic threatening charge after, authorities said, he became irate over a $50 checked-bag fee and told an airline worker at New York's LaGuardia Airport that there was a bomb in the bag.
• Eddie Johnson, the 57-year-old Chicago police superintendent, was "conscious and alert and in good spirits" after being briefly hospitalized because he fainted during an Illinois State Police awards ceremony, a Chicago police spokesman said.
• Vick Liu, a sophomore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, raised money to manufacture for Syrian refugees 250 bedrolls that he designed, which include features like a waterproof document pocket, a shoulder strap, and the ability to zip together into larger, family-size bedding.
• Bill Harris, the coroner in Lee County, Ala., said a 3-year-old girl who drowned in a grease pit at an Auburn ice cream shop was shown on video playing with her siblings when she apparently fell through a lid covering the 6-foot-deep pit.
• Jay Burch, the Denison, Texas, police chief, wrote on Facebook that two of his officers were refused service and cursed at by a Whataburger worker, with the company saying the employee had been fired and that it plans to speak with the officers.
A Section on 10/16/2017