Jonathan Edwards

• National

The Savannah, Mo., Board of Aldermen voted to terminate Police Lt. Daniel Zeigler, whose K-9 Horus died in June of overheating inside Zeigler’s police SUV.

• National

The Missouri attorney general’s office charged Savannah Police Lt. Daniel Zeigler with misdemeanor animal abuse, saying he left his police dog Horus inside his SUV for hours.

• Travel

A professional violinist said Ryanair refused to let her board with her priceless instrument, forcing her to book a last-minute flight with another carrier.

• Europe

Hvaldimir the beluga won hearts in Norway’s coastal communities after showing up wearing a harness that read “Equipment St. Petersburg.”

• Sports

The Australian academic said she has struggled with her mental health and worried about her and her loved ones’ safety, but that dancing remains her “medicine.”

• National

After 47 years, authorities have identified the body of “Pinnacle Man,” whom hikers discovered in 1977 inside a Pennsylvania cave along the Appalachian Trail.

• National

Performance artist Sandy Snakenberg says he’ll fight a ticket for “littering prohibited fluids” for making bubbles for kids in a public park.

• National

A national park created an ad out of visitors’ criticisms after it was ranked “one of the most disappointing U.S. attractions.”

• Style

The rumor started on X, got big on CNN and ended in a wave of disappointment on the floor of the Democratic convention.