• Jamie Giovinazzo, founder of Eat Clean Bro in Freehold, N.J., says his company will cover the $1,635 Uber fare to thank Kenny Bachman for choosing not to drive when he got drunk in West Virginia and accidentally ordered a ride back to his home state of New Jersey.
• Pope Francis, during his general audience Wednesday, praised the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the wake of an announcement that North and South Korean leaders will meet, saying the games show that sport can "build bridges between countries in conflict and give a valid contribution to peace."
• Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, a prosecutor in Tehran, Iran, said a woman who removed her Islamic headscarf in public as part of an anti-hijab campaign known as "White Wednesdays" was sentenced to 24 months in prison.
• Steven Crocker of Virginia Beach, Va., whose marriage plans fell through, is soliciting stories from couples who want to tie the knot but can't afford a ring, and the couple selected will get the $1,700 diamond ring he bought, a contest he says is "more about hope than loss."
• Thomas Anderson, police chief in Miami, Okla., said investigators are "getting calls from all over" as they try to find a red, 8-foot-tall gas pump that was stolen from outside a restored 1929 Marathon gas station along a downtown section of what used to be Route 66.
• Michael Powell, 44, a truck driver from Simpsonville, S.C., lost control of his rig, which overturned on Interstate 10 near Holt, Fla., spilling 60,000 pounds of Busch beer in cans and cartons on the roadway, the highway patrol said.
• Lynn Spruill, the mayor of Starkville, Miss., broke a 3-3 tie by voting in favor of granting a permit for the city's first gay-pride parade to be held March 24, reversing an earlier aldermen's vote to deny it.
• Mara Rodriguez, a San Bernardino County, Calif., sheriff's office spokesman, said a 14-year-old boy was arrested on accusations of pretending to be a deputy after reports that he conducted phony investigations and pulled over motorists while driving an SUV equipped with flashing lights.
• Barbara Burgess of Mobile, Ala., who while using a metal detector found a University of Tennessee class ring buried in about 4 inches of dirt, tracked down its owner, Dr. Stephen Sheppard, who said he lost the ring nearly 50 years ago while attending medical school in Alabama.
A Section on 03/08/2018