• Will Austin, 22, an Australian street musician, created a stir when his didgeridoo, a polished-wood wind instrument, was mistaken for a rifle as he rode a train, prompting police in body armor and carrying assault rifles to confront him at a Melbourne station and briefly lock down the station at rush hour.
• Alek Krautman, who tweeted a photo of bagels sliced like bread, calling them "the St. Louis secret" because slicing them creates more surface area for toppings, got an earful on social media from New Yorkers, including Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, who tweeted: "St Louis, fuhgeddaboudit."
• Todd Barket, 51, of Brandon, Fla., was arrested on a first-degree murder charge when his fingerprints, submitted as part of a background check for a new job, tied him to a 1998 slaying, police said.
• Robert Cornegy Jr., 53, a 6-foot-10 New York City councilman from Brooklyn, has been named the world's tallest male politician by Guinness World Records, replacing a British member of Parliament who died in 1979 and was 6-foot-7½.
• Tay'lor Smith, 19, who pleaded guilty to pushing her 16-year-old friend off a bridge at a swimming area near Vancouver, Wash., severely injuring her in a 50-foot fall, was sentenced to two days in jail and 38 days on a county work crew.
• Rashad James, a black Maryland legal aid lawyer, filed a discrimination complaint against a Harford County sheriff's deputy who detained him at the county courthouse after mistaking him for a suspect and refusing to believe that James' driver's license was valid.
• Karen Carter Peterson, a state senator from New Orleans and leader of the Louisiana Democratic Party, who was cited for a misdemeanor when she, as an admitted compulsive gambler, was caught in a Baton Rouge casino in violation of state law, isn't expected to face prosecution.
• Sue Savaglio-Jarvis, superintendent of the Kenosha, Wis., Unified School District, said the district has banned cheerleading awards that objectify students' bodies after coaches at one high school gave awards to girls with the largest breasts or buttocks.
• Eric Charron, 42, of Kansas City, Mo., accused of threatening President Donald Trump, was arrested near Bruceton Mills, W.Va., for speeding at 130 mph on an interstate on his way to the White House with a gun, state police said.
A Section on 03/29/2019