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Bob Barger, a 96-year-old World War II veteran, received a standing ovation Saturday as he received his college degree at the University of Toledo in Ohio, 68 years after he took his last class.

Khaled al-Anani, Egypt's antiquities minister, said the first phase of the new Grand Egyptian Museum near the pyramids in Giza will be completed by year's end, as military police escorted the sixth and final chariot belonging to pharaoh Tutankhamun to the site.

Rodney Bennett, president of the University of Southern Mississippi, said he is "honored" to be part of the institution as it awards a posthumous honorary degree to Clyde Kennard, a black U.S. Army veteran who was rejected when he applied to integrate the Hattiesburg school several times in the 1950s.

Kali Gennette, a Clay County, Fla., veterinarian, said a frightened baby otter named Daisy that took refuge in a woman's garage was dehydrated, undernourished and had cuts on its paws and ear, but is now thriving in the care of the Wildlife Rescue Coalition of Northeast Florida.

Tyeisha Coneisha Streater, 26, faces charges including child abuse after Gastonia, N.C., police said they found her three children, ages 7 and younger, drinking vodka while she was away from the home.

Brad Scott, a GNS Science volcanologist, said a sinkhole the length of two football fields and the depth of a six-story building that opened up on a New Zealand farm after days of heavy rain is three times larger than any he has seen before.

Mike Stura, a New Jersey farm owner, said the 1-year-old bull named Shankar that drew national attention when it roamed through the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y., last fall after escaping from a slaughterhouse died of a respiratory disease a few weeks after arriving at his farm but that it was "happy" at the end.

A Section on 05/06/2018

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