News of the Day From Around the Nation, Oct. 15

1 E-cigarettes: A Michigan judge blocked the state’s two-week-old ban on flavored e-cigarettes. Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday. She says Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration’s delay in implementing the ban undercut its position that emergency rules were needed. Stephens also says there is evidence that if flavored vaping products are prohibited, adults will return to using more harmful combustible tobacco products. The lawsuit was filed by vaping businesses that say they will go out of business due to the ban. Whitmer has said the ban is necessary to combat an epidemic of teens vaping.

2 School explosion: Montana authorities say a device they initially thought to be the remnants of a homemade bomb in an elementary school playground wasn’t a bomb. Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton said Tuesday that the plastic bottle wrapped in black tape was full of washers, nuts and bolts, along with a non-flammable unidentified liquid. Dutton says a homeless person carried the bottle from a nearby construction site and left it in Helena’s Rossiter Elementary School playground.

3 Nuclear plant shut: The U.S. Supreme Court has shut down South Carolina’s attempt to complete a nuclear fuel facility. The justices declined on Tuesday to hear the state’s appeal of a ruling allowing the federal government to stop construction. The government has already spent $8 billion on the plant, under construction at the Savannah River site near Aiken. The U.S. Energy Department has said it should cut its losses because the plant is over budget and decades away from completion. The Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility would have taken plutonium used in nuclear weapons and processed it into nuclear plant fuel.

4 Manhole corpse:...