• Frederick Ramirez, a Democrat running for an open state House seat in Philadelphia, was removed from the ballot after a judge found that the use of utilities at his claimed residence, such as just 95 gallons of water registered over three months, proves that he didn't really live in the district.
• Lori Iverson, a spokesman for the National Elk Refuge in western Wyoming, said a Washington, D.C., man was issued a $280 ticket after he launched a drone over a resting herd of about 1,500 elk, causing them to spook and stampede a half-mile.
• Jonathan Baxter, a spokesman for the San Francisco Fire Department, said it took about an hour, 16 firefighters and a special canine harness to rescue a dog that had fallen halfway down a cliff at the Golden Gate National Recreational Area.
• Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., filed papers seeking to divorce his wife, Carole, to whom he proposed in 2008 and married after a 10-month courtship while he was serving as the state's Republican governor.
• Ana Lucia Gnecco, 24, a U.S. Navy seaman, got help from a Broward County, Fla., judge who had an assistant buy her a breast pump so she could feed her 5-month-old daughter while Gnecco remains jailed on charges that she deserted her post in Portsmouth, Va., after giving birth.
• James Stone, 45, of Biddeford, Maine, was arrested on a theft charge and several out-of-state warrants after, police said, he lured a 46-year-old Ohio woman to Maine with her three children and then stole her credit card and abandoned her after she dropped him off at a bank.
• Greg Shore, coroner in Anderson County, S.C., said a 41-year-old father of five, Antonio Jacinto, was killed when a 19-year-old, who was later charged with driving under the influence, lost control of his SUV and plowed into a bedroom where Jacinto and one of his children were sleeping.
• Taha Mahran, 51, a New York City landlord, faces murder and other charges after, police said, he stabbed to death the tenant of an apartment in the Bronx in an apparent dispute over unpaid rent.
• Chelsea Brink, Nora McInerny and Kate O'Reilly, all of Minneapolis, used social media to draw hundreds of people to a political fundraiser held at a tattoo parlor where a person could pay $75 to get a tattoo of the words "Nevertheless, she persisted," a rallying cry for supporters of women's rights.
A Section on 02/25/2017