• Zayn Malik announced that he is leaving chart-topping boy band One Direction "to be a normal 22-year-old" as the group, currently on a world tour, said it would continue with the four remaining members and record an album later this year.
• Wojciech Gil, 36, a former priest, was sentenced in Poland to seven years in prison on charges of sexually abusing eight children in Poland and in the Dominican Republic, the regional court in Warsaw said.
• Randy Woodson, North Carolina State University's chancellor, announced the immediate disbanding of the Tau Chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity after the discovery of a fraternity notebook filled with sexist and racially offensive entries.
• Xiao Ju Guan, 39, a Canadian antiques dealer caught in a U.S. crackdown on illegal trafficking in rhinoceros horns, was sentenced in Manhattan to 2½ years in prison.
• Nathan Deal, the Republican governor of Georgia, is to announce Friday that he plans to sign a medical marijuana bill into law after the state's General Assembly session ends April 2 and will order state agencies to begin preparing to implement it.
• Lindsey Radomski, 32, a Scottsdale, Ariz., woman accused of exposing her newly augmented breasts to adults and children and performing a sex act on a teen at a bar mitzvah, was arrested on suspicion of sexual conduct with a minor, sexual abuse, felony indecent exposure and misdemeanor exposure.
• Michael Willette, a Republican Maine state senator who was criticized for a Facebook post suggesting that President Barack Obama's family members are part of the Islamic State group, stepped down as chairman of a legislative committee.
• Joseph Amorese, 46, an Easton, Pa., man recovering from hernia surgery, won $7 million for a lottery ticket that his father had tucked into a get-well card.
• Geraldine Alcorn, 28, a former grade school teacher in Pittsburgh who authorities say became obsessed with an 11-year-old student and talked to the girl about running away with her, was arraigned on charges including child luring.
• David Cameron, the British prime minister, apologized to thousands of patients who were infected with the hepatitis-C virus and HIV from contaminated government blood products and transfusions during the 1970s and 1980s.
A Section on 03/26/2015