• Jeff Pottinger, band director at a Jesuit high school in St. Louis, said 45 of his students will be able to tell stories for years about unexpectedly meeting Pope Francis when they performed at the Vatican on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica during a musical trip to Italy.
• Jacob Shoemaker, a high school senior in Hilliard, Ohio, who said he wanted to remain nonpolitical during Wednesday's national school walkouts over gun violence, was suspended for a day because he stayed in a classroom instead of joining protests or going to a study hall.
• Hillary Clinton, 70, the former secretary of state and presidential candidate, sought treatment at an Indian hospital for a "minor injury," described as a sprained wrist by a worker at the hotel where she was staying during a tour of monuments in the city of Jaipur.
• Justin Price, a Republican Rhode Island legislator, has withdrawn his bill to prohibit private outhouses in the state, saying the issue should be addressed by individual communities if people complain that their neighbors have a smelly privy.
• Constantin Reliu, 63, a Romanian man whose wife had him declared dead in 2016 after he spent two decades living in Turkey, was told by a judge that it's "too late" to have his death certificate revoked when he returned home and needed to prove he is still alive.
• Denise Huskins, who was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a masked intruder in 2015, and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, will receive $2.5 million from Vallejo, Calif., to settle a lawsuit filed after police investigators initially dismissed the woman's story as a hoax.
• Derrick Faria, 19, accused of taking a cab to and from a bank robbery in Evansville, Ind., and then using stolen cash to pay the driver, was arrested on robbery and drug counts, police said.
• Kara Swindle of Wichita, Kan., got her German shepherd named Irgo back after it was mistakenly flown to Japan when Swindle and her two children flew from Oregon to Missouri and, during a connecting flight in Denver, the dog's crate was mixed up with that of a Great Dane being sent overseas.
• Madilyn Fowler, 9, of Advance, N.C., said she figures that a hungry coyote "just decided" to make a snack out of her when it latched onto her skirt, chased her and bit her three times, leaving deep gashes on her face and back before her mother drove it off.
A Section on 03/17/2018