• President Donald Trump, 71, tweeted that if he and former Vice President Joe Biden, 75, ever got into a brawl, "he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way," the day after Biden said that if the two were in high school, he'd "beat the h***" out of Trump for making lewd comments about women.
• Rex Tillerson, who bid goodbye Thursday to State Department employees after being fired as secretary of state, told them to protect their personal integrity and strive to respect one another since Washington, D.C., "can be a very mean-spirited town."
• Fred Shelton, police chief in Columbus, Miss., said three men from Georgia who said they were observing "open carry" left without incident after store managers asked them to leave a Walmart because they were carrying an assault-style rifle, a handgun and a machete.
• Hannah Borden of Kennebunk, Maine, said she awoke to a "really loud crash" and found that a wild turkey had smashed through a window in her sister's bedroom, prompting a call to police who captured the bird using a net and blanket, and took it outside to set it free.
• Brianna Lofton, 20, of Raleigh, N.C., was arrested on child abuse and other counts after authorities were alerted to two videos on social media showing her 1-year-old daughter taking puffs from a cigarillo and inhaling smoke from a marijuana cigarette.
• Kia Hampton, 28, a former Miss Kentucky from Louisville, convicted of trying to smuggle a small amount of marijuana to an ex-boyfriend who in an Ohio prison, was sentenced to probation by a judge who said she seemed remorseful and unlikely to reoffend.
• Hugh Hall, a member of a Fly Jamaica Airways flight crew, was arrested after arriving in New York on a flight from Jamaica when customs officers discovered four packages containing 9 pounds of cocaine taped to his legs.
• Philip Acosta, 37, chief technology officer for a school district in El Paso, Texas, resigned after being arrested on charges he stole more than 130 digital tablets worth more than $64,000 from the district, detectives said.
• Perry Martin of Fort Pierce, Fla., who microchipped his orange tabby, Thomas Jr., or T2 for short, but lost track of him 14 years ago when Hurricane Jeanne struck the state, was reunited with his pet when he got a call that T2 was in a shelter in Palm City.
A Section on 03/23/2018