• Nabi Tajima of Japan, who was born Aug. 4, 1900, became the world's oldest person after the death of Violet Brown of Jamaica, who was 117 years and 189 days old, according to the Gerontology Research Group.
• Jane Brister, who works with an animal rescue nonprofit in Australia, said she thought she had "seen it all" before she got a call about a koala that had squeezed into the wheel arch of a vehicle and was only found after a 10-mile journey, adding that the animal had a few scratches but otherwise was fine.
• Jim Denny, a former mayor of Lupus, Mo., blamed Facebook advertisements for the growth of the Lupus Chili Fest from a small party for the village of 30 residents to one that drew more than 2,000 people last year, leading organizers to cancel the event.
• Antonella Leone, a researcher at Italy's Institute of Sciences of Food Production leading a project to encourage people to start eating the invasive jellyfish swarming their seas, had the cake at her wedding decorated with candy versions of the critters.
• Armando Perez, whose guilty plea in his first trial in the stabbing death of his 19-year-old estranged wife was overturned because the 44-year-old was representing himself, thanked the San Diego jury that found him guilty of murder in a second trial.
• Lauren Fizz, a former deputy coroner in Monroe County, Pa., is suing the coroner, Robert Allen, and Allen's wife and top aide, Kathleen "Traci" Allen, over Fizz's firing after Fizz filed a complaint that said Traci Allen told co-workers about her marital problems and infidelity, showed them obscene photos of one of her lovers, and talked "about leaving work early for a liaison in the woods."
• Loup Bureau, a 27-year-old freelance journalist from France who had been reporting on Kurds living near Turkey's border with Iraq, returned home after being held for 51 days in Turkey on charges of aiding a terror group.
• Steven Pirus of Madison, Wis., faces charges including homicide and arson in the shooting death of his wife, with police saying he used his home's natural gas system to blow up the building in an attempt to cover up the killing.
• Megan Prescott, an Oxford, Miss., Police Department assistant, said a new "safe site" tent on the town square, near several bars and restaurants, puts officers in an easy-to-find and well-lit area to help people find safe rides home or escort them to their cars after socializing.
A Section on 09/18/2017