• Corinne Geller, a Virginia State Police spokesman, said that for more than five years limited resources have prevented the department from using airplanes to catch speeders, despite the presence of 425 signs along highways that proclaim "Speed limit enforced by aircraft."
• David Helsel, superintendent of a rural school district in Orwigsburg, Pa., said "one small part" of the district's security plans features a 5-gallon bucket of river stones in every classroom that students and teachers can throw at any armed intruders as a last resort to defend themselves.
• Mason Ringer, 24, who struggled after falling out of a boat into a frigid river in Okatie, S.C., was pulled to safety by Woody, a 7-year-old yellow Labrador retriever that lives nearby, and now says he owes the dog a big steak.
• Scott Martin, a sheriff's corporal in Stroudsburg, Pa., put up a wanted poster accusing Punxsutawney Phil of deception after a spring storm dumped more snow on the Northeast more than a week past the time the furry prognosticator had predicted that winter would end.
• Paris Lane, 12, a British schoolgirl with naturally red hair who dyed her tresses a different color after being bullied by other students, was told by a teacher to change her hair color again because "orange is not a natural color," Paris' mother said in a complaint to school officials.
• Zach Reynolds, co-owner of a dinosaur-themed park in Canon City, Colo., joked that "We knew he had a temper, but today he blew his top," after an electrical malfunction caused a 24-foot-tall life-size animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex to burst into flames.
• Bryan Robinson of Killen, Ala., who promised dozens of investors he would build a $3.5 billion theme park in northwest Alabama, pleaded guilty to fraud and was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $7 million in restitution.
• Tanya Lozova, 10, who became an Internet sensation when she was caught on camera pointing her finger in a cutthroat gesture at the governor of Russia's Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, during a protest calling for a toxic landfill to be closed, said her gesture was meant to mean "You are killing us!"
• Allison Preiss of Washington, D.C., who paid $163 for a one-way ticket to Austin, Texas, said she scored a maximum $10,000 travel voucher when she was bumped off a United Airlines flight that was overbooked.
A Section on 03/24/2018