• Joseph Early, a district attorney in Worcester, Mass., said a 5-year-old girl found walking alone down a busy street told a police officer that "Mommy is sleeping, mommy is sick," leading to the arrest of her father, 42-year-old Michael Sugarman of Grafton, in the death of his wife, Kelly, 36.
• Garrett Giberson, spokesman for the Asbury Park, N.J., Fire Department, said a roach-infested apartment was still crawling with insects after an explosion, caused when a stove's pilot light ignited bug-spray fumes, sent two adults and one child to the hospital.
• Sonia Sotomayor, the U.S. Supreme Court justice, was chosen to deliver the commencement speech at the University of Rhode Island, which will bestow on her an honorary Doctor of Laws degree during the May 22 ceremony in Kingston, R.I.
• Mike Turner, a U.S. representative from Ohio, sent a letter to the top general at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton objecting to the removal of a Bible from a POW/MIA display in the base hospital's dining area after a religious-freedom group complained.
• Luis Rivera, 19, of Irving, Texas, was sentenced to nearly 16 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of children after prosecutors said he forced a 12-year-old girl to have sex with a man for $50.
• Jackie Pierce, 58, of Cleveland was indicted on charges of murder, felonious assault and robbery after police said that during a 2013 robbery he kicked a man repeatedly in the groin, rupturing a testicle, leading to the victim's eventual death from gangrene.
• Jeremy Conner, 30, band instructor at Westgate High School in New Iberia, La., was charged with indecent behavior with a minor after he reportedly was found hiding in a 16-year-old girl's closet, Ascension Parish sheriff's Lt. Col. Bobby Webre said.
• Blake Zengo, 20, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, public intoxication and underage consumption of alcohol after a woman told investigators she had been sprayed in the face with a product designed to smell like flatulence at a bar in Athens, Ga.
• Troy Peterson, sheriff of Harrison County, Miss., paid a personal visit to the home of Theresa and Brickford Lero to present a "certificate of bravery" to their pit bull, Leon, who survived a gunshot to the head while fending off prowlers.
A Section on 04/16/2016