• Gian Piero Milano, chief prosecutor of Vatican City's criminal tribunal, said the Vatican investigated two cases of child pornography possession in the past year, with one resulting in the defrocking of former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic Jozef Wesolowski, but the suspect in the second case was not identified.
• Norman Pappous, a Galveston, Texas, city councilman, said he didn't mean to offend anyone and doesn't have anything to apologize for after playing an Adolf Hitler spoof video, which has been used in hundreds of parodies on the Internet, during a public meeting on rewriting land-use rules.
• Michael Silva, an Air Force instructor at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a military jury for raping two women, including a recruit he assaulted while he was training her two decades ago.
• Tom Rose of Poulsbo, Wash., said he has paid more than $18,000 in bridge tolls and late penalties for his son, who learned when he tried to sell his car that he owed $1,360 in tolls and $16,000 in penalties for crossing the 520 Bridge in Seattle daily for work but for which he was never billed.
• John Kerry, the U.S. secretary of state, said during a weekend meeting in Boston with his counterparts from Canada and Mexico that North America has an "enormous interest" in building diplomatic ties with Cuba.
• Bucky Rowland, the Maury County, Tenn., sheriff, said about 900 students were evacuated from Spring Hill High School and one student was arrested after an elaborately designed explosive device was found on a handrail in a stall of the boys bathroom and was removed by bomb technicians.
• Maria del Pilar Hurtado, the ex-head of Colombia's intelligence agency who fled in 2010 to Panama, surrendered to authorities and was flown to Bogota for arraignment on accusations of spying on opponents of former President Alvaro Uribe.
• Joe Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police, said a satchel left at a New York City bus station that was initially suspected of containing an explosive actually held 1,000 individually wrapped condoms.
• Jordan Gonzalez, a New York City pharmacist, was sentenced to 6½ years in prison after admitting to assembling materials to produce weapons-grade ricin, abrin and other toxins at his apartments in Jersey City and Manhattan.
A Section on 02/01/2015