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• Thirty-two-year-old Bobby Clifford Smith III faces theft and related charges for allegedly exchanging a toilet he didn't buy for gift cards at a Somerset County home improvement store.
• State police say Smith, of Windber, entered the store on Aug. 28, grabbed a toilet from a shelf and immediately went to the return line to exchange it for more than $600 in gift cards.
• Investigators say surveillance footage from the store captured the entire episode.
• The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat (http://bit.ly/TlB18o ) reports Smith was arraigned Tuesday and held on $30,000 bail. Court records don't list an attorney for him.
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Clinton boosts Obama in rousing convention speech
DAVID ESPO,AP Special Correspondent
• CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- In an impassioned speech that rocked the Democratic National Convention, former President Bill Clinton proclaimed Wednesday night, "I know we're coming back" from the worst economic mess in generations and appealed to hard-pressed Americans to stick with Barack Obama for a second term in the White House.
• Obama strode onstage as Clinton concluded his speech. The 42nd president bowed, and was pulled into an embrace by the 44th as thousands of delegates jammed into the convention hall roared their approval.
• Clinton, conceding that many struggling in a slow-recovery economy don't yet feel improvement, said circumstances are indeed getting better, "and if you'll renew the president's contract you will feel it."
• To more cheers, he said of Obama, "I want to nominate a man who is cool on the outside but who burns for America on the inside."
• Not long afterward, the delegates formally awarded Obama their nomination to a second term in a post-midnight roll call of the states.
• Clinton spoke as Obama's high command worked to control the political fallout from an embarrassing retreat on the party platform, just two months from Election Day in the tight race with Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
• Under criticism from Romney, the Obama camp abruptly rewrote the day-old document to insert a reference to God and to declare that Jerusalem "is and will remain the capital of Israel." Some delegates objected loudly, but Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, presiding in the largely-empty hall, ruled them outvoted. White House aides said Obama had personally ordered the changes, but they did not dis (Continued on page 29)
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