In the news

Nancy Libby, principal at a Christian private school in Concord, Calif., apologized over a lunch menu supposedly intended to celebrate Black History Month that included cornbread, fried chicken and watermelon.

James Carville, the lead strategist for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, was hired as a contributor to Fox News Channel, a year after he and his wife, Republican strategist Mary Matalin, exited CNN.

Kenny Thompson, a volunteer at a Houston-area elementary school who noticed some students were getting cold cheese sandwiches for lunch, is covering $465 in delinquent meal accounts so all the children can get the same full lunch.

William Roache, 81, a longtime star of the British soap opera Coronation Street, was cleared of multiple charges of sexual assault against young girls.

Sarah Segal, an Atlanta member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, filed an application for a 10-foot roadside memorial for chickens killed in a wreck.

President Barack Obama scolded China, Iran, North Korea and other countries known for repressing religious minorities and declared at the annual National Prayer Breakfast that promoting freedom of faith around the world was a central goal of U.S. foreign policy.

Randall Vaughn and his wife, Mary Vaughn, face a murder charge in Hawkins County, Tenn., accused of forcing the man’s 5-year-old daughter, Alexa Linboom, to drink more than 2 liters of grape soda and water, causing her brain to rupture.

Daniel Athens, 23, of El Paso, Texas, faces up to 1½ years in jail after pleading guilty to urinating on the Alamo.

Phillip Nolan, who plays the drums in Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s band, Herringbone, was charged with five counts of sexual assault and five of sexual interference with a minor over reported offenses dating back to 1998 and 2000.

James Edward Satterfield, 59, was found guilty but mentally ill in Cobb County, Ga., after threatening to eat the family of a judge who presided over Satterfield’s divorce.

Joe Biden, the vice president, said at an event in Philadelphia in which he stressed the need for infrastructure improvement that if he blindfolded someone and took him to New York’s LaGuardia Airport, that person would think he was in “some third-world country.”

Front Section, Pages 1 on 02/07/2014

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