Pope Francis, 77, canceled a visit to Rome’s main seminary after coming down with a fever.
Katie Marie McCrary, 35, of Decatur, Ga., faces a theft charge in Atlanta, accused of pretending to be a Waffle House company manager and stealing about $100 before returning to the eatery to give the cash back.
Walter Williams, 78, a Lexington, Miss., farmer pronounced dead Wednesday evening, started to kick inside a body bag the next day at a funeral home, leading a coroner to say he thinks Williams’ pacemaker stopped, then restarted.
Scott Lowe, 22, a Rockland, Mass., man pulled over in Hingham for speeding, said he was on his way to collect $50,000 he’d won off a scratch-off lottery ticket and was allowed to continue on his way with a warning.
Debbie Dingell, 60, the wife of Democratic Rep. John Dingell, the 87-yearold Michigan congressman who plans to retire from the House after this term, announced she will run for the seat her husband has held for more than 58 years.
Ken Ham, founder of the Creation Museum in Kentucky, said an evolution debate he had with “Science Guy” Bill Nye on Feb. 4 helped boost enthusiasm among followers who invested in a project to build a 510-foot Noah’s Ark.
Yoshihide Suga, a Japanese government spokesman, said Japan will re-examine a landmark apology it made two decades ago to women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels, a move that risks further angering South Korea, where many of the women came from.
Wissam Akiki, 41, who is married, was ordained by the Maronite Catholic Church during a ceremony in St. Louis, the first such event in the United States in nearly a century, after Akiki received Pope Francis’ permission to be ordained.
Sosefina Amoa, 26, a Samoan woman studying to become a nun, pleaded guilty to killing her newborn son at a convent in Washington, D.C., in October.
Paul Joseph Vukmanich, 27, a Canadian man who killed a police dog last fall while high on drugs, was sentenced to 26 months in prison and banned from owning a pet for 25 years.
Eric Hartwell, 51, a child rapist who was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after he sliced off his GPS monitor and disappeared from Denver, was arrested in Virginia, U.S. marshals said.
Front Section, Pages 1 on 03/01/2014