• Philip Giese, 41, a convicted felon in Orland Park, Ill., arrested on illegal-handgun counts, also was charged with illegal possession of a wild animal when police found that he kept a pet bobcat in the vacant storefront where he lived.
• Patrick Gibson, 55, the scoutmaster of Troop 205 in Long Beach, Miss., was charged with embezzling between $15,000 and $20,000 in troop funds over a three-year period after another Scout leader found discrepancies in the troop's checking account, police said.
• Brandon Sanders, 23, and his ex-wife, Anna, 22, of Carthage, Mo., were each sentenced to 120 days in a prison "shock" incarceration program followed by probation after being convicted of fracturing four of their 1-month-old baby's ribs and both legs in 2015.
• Diana Emfinger, a retired educator in Vicksburg, Miss., filed a complaint with the Warren County Election Commission after an email was sent to students promising to exempt them from final exams if they voted in a March 27 election on a bond measure to renovate district schools.
• Paul Moore, 21, was convicted by a British jury of attempted murder for running over a Muslim woman in Leicester, fracturing her pelvis, spine and leg, in what prosecutors described as a hate crime committed in revenge for Islamic extremist attacks.
• Ken Detzner, Florida's secretary of state, said that an offshore archaeological site on the continental shelf near Venice is protecting what appears to be a newly discovered, peat-bottomed pond that was used as a burial site by American Indians 7,000 years ago.
• Bekre Abdela, 28, was arrested on a charge of attempted murder and other counts after police in Hyattsville, Md., accused him of throwing sulfuric acid on his roommate's face and body, critically injuring her.
• Brad Atkins, a pastor in Spartanburg, S.C., said a woman, worried about being carjacked, zipped a loaded handgun into a lunch bag but forgot to take it out when she dropped off her child at a church day care, where it was spotted and confiscated by a teacher.
• Derrick Johnson, 21, of Waterbury, Conn., was charged with burglary, larceny and identity theft, accused of stealing a rookie police officer's car the night the officer graduated from the police academy and then using the new officer's credit cards to buy fast food and shop at a Walmart.
A Section on 03/03/2018