An autumn storm brought snow to parts of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, the earliest snow on record in some towns used to harsh winters.

When jeweler Cathy Calhoun returned to the site of her old job, she found a gem: a building ripe for renovation. She has taken the quirky former bank, where she worked as a teller in the 1970s, and turned it into a home that blends history and modern luxury. The heart of the place is the vaults. Really, how many other people can boast vaults—ones that still had valuables inside?

A man who sprayed bullets into a fitness class filled with women he didn’t know, killing three and then himself, kept a Web page in which he wrote about years of rejection by women and left behind notes describing his inability to get a girlfriend, police said.

Holiday emergencies include an Indiana pedestrian bridge collapse and fireworks-related fatalities in Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Montana, where a girl was electrocuted on air conditioning equipment after cliimbing on a roof to see fireworks.

SCRANTON, Pa.—A case of cussing is costing the city of Scranton. Officials of the Pennsylvania city are paying $19,000 to a woman who was busted for cursing at her overflowing toilet. Scranton is also paying Dawn Herb’s legal fees. She was arrested last year after a neighbor, an off-duty police officer, heard a string of her blue language through an open window.