• Tommy Crosby, a spokesman for South Carolina's public health agency, said the chief spokesman, Tim Kelly, accidentally posted on the agency's official Twitter account a profanity-laced message critical of President Donald Trump, and though not saying whether Kelly was still employed, Crosby provided an updated list of the staff that did not include Kelly's name.
• Bartosz Bukala, a spokesman for Nysa, Poland, authorities, said a runaway Limousin cow that had gained celebrity status as it eluded searchers for three months, died soon after being caught, apparently from stress, while on a truck that was to take it to a farm.
• Arnold Cowen, 86, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to molesting 10 fifth-grade girls at a Perry, Okla., school where he was a teacher's aide.
• Robert Bivines, a 36-year-old delivery driver for UberEats, surrendered to authorities after fatally shooting 30-year-old customer Ryan Thornton, Atlanta police said, in what Bivines' attorney described as self-defense.
• Jason Jimenez, a spokesman for the Elk Grove, Calif., police, confirmed that emergency dispatchers have been fielding about 20 accidental 911 calls from an Apple repair center daily since October, saying it's still not clear why the calls are being placed but that the tech giant has been working to resolve the problem.
• Rolando Ortiz, 37, was arrested after, Chicago police said, he fatally slashed his 2-year-old son in the neck, nearly decapitating him, because the toddler was making too much noise while the father tried to sleep.
• Warren R. Knight, a member of the family that operates Smiling Hill Farm in Scarborough, Maine, described as "disturbing" the fatal shooting of a 5-year-old pregnant goat named Ava, and added in a statement that the dairy farm is offering a $1,000 reward for tips that lead to the perpetrator.
• Jennifer Bradford-Vernon, spokesman for the Salina, Kan., school district, said a scared elementary school student took a gun and knife to school after seeing a threatening Facebook post that the child thought was directed at the school.
• Susannah Burley's nonprofit group, Sustaining Our Urban Landscape, says the 150 trees it plans to plant in three New Orleans neighborhoods today can, when mature, help reduce flooding by absorbing up to 880 gallons of water a day.
A Section on 02/24/2018