• Queen Elizabeth II has given royal approval to a law making it a criminal offense in England and Wales to take photos under a person's clothes without permission, which Parliament passed after a man was caught taking a photo up a woman's skirt at a London music festival.
• Lane Akin, sheriff of Wise County, Texas, said a man and woman will be charged with child endangerment after deputies, responding to a domestic disturbance, discovered four malnourished children age 5 or younger, including two locked inside a dog cage.
• Beth Flint, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist, said a Laysan albatross named Wisdom, which at 68 is the oldest known wild bird in the world, is "rewriting history" and knowledge about birds after hatching a chick, the bird's 31st, on the Midway Atoll in the north Pacific Ocean.
• Jason Alderete, a police sergeant with Houston's animal cruelty unit, said officers first suspected a drug-induced hallucination but were proved wrong when several people who went into an abandoned home to smoke marijuana reported discovering a caged tiger, which was taken to a wildlife sanctuary.
• James Bulerin III, who possesses a Connecticut medical marijuana card, filed a lawsuit after his application to become a firefighter in Bridgeport was rejected when he tested positive for the drug, even though he passed all other eligibility requirements.
• Erin Glen, 39, of Satsuma, Ala., the former bookkeeper of a thrift store owned by the Mobile Catholic Archdiocese, was arrested on accusations that she embezzled more than $100,000 from the operation.
• Harold Wentworth of Gloucester, Mass., who illegally caught a bluefin tuna worth an estimated $10,000 and then dumped the headless, 400-pound carcass in the woods, pleaded guilty to littering and other counts and was fined $1,000 and placed on probation.
• Timothy Hardcastle, a doctor in Durban, South Africa, is treating a newborn girl who was rescued in a four-hour operation that ended with whoops and cheers after residents reported hearing a baby crying deep inside a concrete storm drain.
• Joseph Massey, police chief in Waterville, Maine, said a bank robbery suspect was quickly arrested when, after the heist, he ran across four lanes of traffic and a parking lot before slipping on ice, causing him to spill the money in front of a state police special agent.
A Section on 02/13/2019