• Moira Walsh, a Democratic state legislator from Providence, R.I., was fired from her job as a waitress because her employer said her "vocal political discussions" during her shift interfered with her work and generated "scathing" online reviews.
• Lisa Lambert, city clerk for Mobile, Ala., now has a different office after work crews, prompted by her complaints about the stench in her old ninth-floor office, tore out a wall and found dead rats and pigeons, as well as mold.
• Roseann Sdoia, who lost her leg in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, is now engaged to firefighter Mike Materia, who rushed to help her when the bomb went off, stayed with her on the ride to the hospital and eventually struck up a friendship that resulted in a first date two months later.
• Thomas Mutarelli, a Suffolk County, N.Y., highway patrol officer, and volunteer firefighter Jeffrey Dupoux moved fast to pull Melissa Ortiz from her SUV after it crashed into a truck on the Long Island Expressway and burst into flames.
• William Seal, 34, of Princeton, W.Va., was convicted of second-degree murder for stabbing his ex-wife 86 times when she stopped by his apartment about four hours after she married another man, prosecutors said.
• Alex Rueda, a prosecutor in Loudoun County, Va., got a judge to order five teens to visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and write reports on books by black, Jewish and Afghan authors as a penalty for spray-painting graffiti on a 19th-century schoolhouse that once served black children.
• Vince Stango said he's still waiting for a response from messages he sent last week to addresses listed on a note contained in a bottle he found along a beach in New Jersey that appears to have been tossed into the ocean by someone from England traveling on a Cunard cruise liner.
• Jeff Clark, a police detective in Toledo, Ohio, testified that a 14-year-old girl accused of fatally shooting her 15-year-old brother as they fought over a video-game system told him that her brother hit her in the face so many times that it felt like she was being hit with a baseball bat.
• Mark Springer, a member of Alaska's Marijuana Control Board, halted a conference call involving about 40 people and admonished one caller for being rude after the sound of a flushing toilet was clearly heard on the line.
A Section on 02/03/2017