• Marco Antonio De la Garza Jr., a 37-year-old former U.S. border officer in southern Arizona, faces criminal charges, accused of illegally obtaining a job with Customs and Border Protection after claiming he was born in Texas when he is actually a Mexico native.
• Brett Stover, a KCOU radio journalist, forced the cancellation of the Missouri University Students Association's presidential election after he dug up and published posts that were offensive to racial minorities, women and homosexuals from the Twitter accounts of three candidates, all of whom have since withdrawn from the race.
• Jimmy Morales, city manager of Miami Beach, Fla., said he was revoking the Mokai Lounge's business license after the club featured a scantily clad woman riding bareback on a white horse, which in a video appeared to panic while maneuvering through the crowded space, knocking the woman off.
• Rika Shimizu, 36, who recruited international students for programs in Hawaii, faces six charges in the sexual assault of a 16-year-old exchange student who had lived in her boarding home for Japanese students attending school in Honolulu.
• Jason Englen, a 34-year-old Chelsea, Mass., man nicknamed the "spelling bee bandit" because the notes he passed to bank tellers during several heists in the Boston area contained the same misspelling of the word "robbery," was sentenced to seven years in prison.
• Lt. Bryan Coromato of the Utica, N.Y., Police Department said a 17-year-old mother was arrested after her 9-month-old baby was found crawling in a busy roadway, and that the teen told investigators that the baby had been in the back seat of her car but "a short time later" had disappeared.
• Jim Breheny, director of the Bronx Zoo in New York, explained that, at nearly 15 years old, Dave the kangaroo is aging -- and for his accompanying arthritis, the zoo will provide localized cryotherapy.
A Section on 03/11/2018