• Roy Moore, a Republican who lost the 2017 U.S. Senate election in Alabama, appealed to his followers on a campaign Facebook page for money to pay for his legal bills as he fights a lawsuit filed by a woman who says he molested her when she was 14.
• Lt. Vasken Gourdikian, a Pasadena, Calif., police spokesman, has pleaded innocent to federal prosecutors' allegation that he used his position to get around California's strict gun laws in order to resell more than 100 firearms without a license.
• Oliver Wiggins, who says he doesn't drink but was arrested on an impaired driving charge, resulting in the suspension of his driver's license and his insurance company's refusal to cover the car repairs, has settled a lawsuit against New York City for nearly $1 million.
• Harold Gordon, a Massachusetts antiques dealer, told The Hartford Courant that he needed money when he sold a museum in Connecticut a forged artifact -- a writing desk that he claimed was a gift given to a Civil War veteran in honor of his brother who was killed at the Battle of Antietam.
• Sgt. John Lacy of the Overland Park, Kan., Police Department, said a man accused of spitting on and referring to a black child by a racial slur at a Hooters restaurant is an out-of-state first responder, though he would not say from which agency and said charges are pending.
• Ian Bartoszek, a biologist studying invasive Burmese pythons in Florida, told the Naples Daily News that it was "surreal" to come upon an 11-foot, 31.5-pound snake that had consumed a 35-pound white-tailed deer.
• Frederick Demond Scott, 23, who already was charged in the killings of three people in the vicinity of Kansas City, Mo., was indicted in the deaths of three more men in the area, all of whom were shot in apparently unprovoked attacks along or near hiking trails, prosecutors said.
• Anthony Avosso, a 31-year-old New York City police officer who is married and has three children, has pleaded innocent to public lewdness charges after, authorities said, he exposed himself to five female officers while on duty.
• Wallace Silva, 64, who said during his sentencing that he views robbing banks as "going to work," must spend more than 15 years in federal prison for a string of crimes in 2016 in which he robbed 10 Hawaii banks of about $30,000.
A Section on 03/04/2018