• Dmitry Rogozin, chief of the Russian space program, said a now-plugged air leak on the International Space Station turned out to be a small drill hole likely caused by an "unsteady hand" during construction of one of the Soyuz capsules now docked at the station.
• Ted Carter, superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, said the incoming 2022 class is about 28 percent female and one of the academy's most diverse, on the same day that the board of visitors announced it was allowing female midshipmen to wear ponytails and other longer hairstyles.
• JoEllen Smith, a spokesman for Ohio's corrections department, said the prison system has "zero tolerance" for animal abuse and is investigating after a foster dog in a program that pairs inmates with dogs was found dead in a cell from "blunt force trauma."
• Celia Spell, who represents the owners of the 1,285-home Kiawah River Plantation in Charleston County, S.C., said the word "plantation" is being dropped from the development's name to disassociate it from slavery and because the word doesn't reflect "the community's vision."
• Joseph Galaska, a police lieutenant in Margate, Fla., said police and paramedics discovered the scene of a murder-suicide at an apartment complex in an upper-floor apartment when a downstairs neighbor reported a red substance seeping from the ceiling.
• Edric Smith, 45, a police sergeant in Pineville, La., who coaches his daughter's softball team, faces a battery charge after being accused of punching an umpire during a game at the University of Louisiana at Monroe because he thought the official was threatening his daughter.
• David Buie, 63, of Kansas City, Mo., already on parole for possessing child pornography, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for possessing obscene images after he left child-sex cartoons on a public library printer.
• Casey Yates, 28, of Knoxville, Tenn., injured an officer when she drove away from a traffic stop, leading police on a chase going the wrong way on Interstate 40 before she was finally arrested on assault and driving-under-the-influence counts, police said.
• Harold Karabell, a St. Louis real estate manager, said his new tenant loves his 200-square-foot apartment that rents for $525 per month and features a combined kitchen/bathroom with the toilet, bathtub, oven and sink all in the same room.
A Section on 09/05/2018