• David Crowder, a police detective in Houston, said Javier Flores, 18, was fatally shot when he pushed his mother out of the line of fire as shots rang out during an attempted robbery at the sandwich shop where they both worked.
• Bruce Conrad, sheriff of San Juan County, Colo., said no charges will be filed against the operator of a low-flying drone that spooked a horse, causing the animal to dart into a crowd during a cross-country skiing event, injuring three people.
• R. Brooke Jackson, a federal judge in Colorado, issued an order blocking Fort Collins from enforcing a 2015 law barring women from going topless, saying the ordinance is likely unconstitutional because it applies only to women.
• Jan Reckendorff, a Danish prosecutor, said a 42-year-old man in northern Denmark has been charged with blasphemy after burning a Koran and posting a video of it on Facebook in 2015, marking the first time since 1971 that someone has been charged with the crime under the Danish law.
• Emma Walton, 90, of Albany, Ga., faces an aggravated-assault charge after, police said, she used a revolver to shoot her 86-year-old husband in the back during an argument, sending him to a hospital where he was treated and released.
• Molly Grace, a boutique owner in Winston-Salem, N.C., is organizing a weekend protest over a billboard along a busy commuter highway that reads "Real men provide. Real women appreciate it," calling the message a slam on gender equality.
• Monsignor Konrad Krajewski, the Vatican's chief alms-giver, went on a shopping spree in quake-struck central Italy, buying up prosciutto, cheese and produce from struggling businesses and then donating it all to area soup kitchens.
• Michael Guadagno, a New Jersey appeals court judge who'll reach the state's mandatory retirement age of 70 this month, surprised the state's lieutenant governor, who happens to be his wife, Kim Guadagno, with his resignation letter so he can collect his pension, and suggested that they discuss it "over dinner."
• Per-Erik Muskos, 42, a member of the town council in Overtornea, Sweden, wants to give each of the municipality's 550 employees a weekly, hourlong paid break to go home and have sex, as a way to improve their work-life balance and potentially lift the local birthrate.
A Section on 02/24/2017