• President Enrique Pena Nieto, speaking on Mexico's Flag Day, acknowledged that the "tri-color" red, white and green flag was flown upside down by mistake at a Mexico City ceremony, saying that "upside down or right side up, backward or forward," the flag is a symbol that gives Mexicans a sense of identity and pride.
• Francoise Nyssen, the French culture minister, said she was delighted that customs officers recovered The Chorus Singers, an impressionist painting by Edgar Degas that was found in a suitcase stowed on a bus, more than eight years after it was stolen from a Marseille museum.
• John C. Young, 46, of Independence, Mo., was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in what police said was a road-rage shooting that killed 19-year-old Christopher Hutson of Lee's Summit and injured Hutson's pregnant girlfriend.
• Jerry Tate, 23, and Christopher Tate, 25, of St. Louis were cleared in a robbery thanks in part to their mother, who insisted on tracking down surveillance video that ultimately exonerated them and resulted in charges being filed against the man who reported the robbery.
• Jeffrey Yao, 23, faces a murder charge in the case of a 22-year-old woman who was repeatedly stabbed with a 10-inch hunting knife while at the Winchester Public Library in Massachusetts, police said.
• Roberta Kaplan, a gay-rights attorney, said she plans to sue on behalf of gay-pride parade organizers in Starkville, Miss., where aldermen voted down a request for a permit for the event.
• Kyle James Hebert, a 43-year-old Lake Charles, La., veterinarian, was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine for working with an Omaha, Neb., pharmacy to sell an unapproved opioid drug that's 40 times more powerful than morphine for the purpose of improving the performance of racehorses.
• Curran Manzer, a 37-year-old Oregonian, faces a federal charge of possession with intent to distribute after, authorities said, he stashed $1 million worth of marijuana in fake boulders that he attempted to ship from Springfield, Ore., to Oklahoma City.
• Brittany Hails said on social media that Dustin Snyder, her 19-year-old brother who married his high school sweetheart on Jan. 28 in Plant City, Fla., after doctors gave him less than a month to live as he battled a rare form of cancer, "got his wings" Friday.
A Section on 02/25/2018