• Julie Lorenz, secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation, said a tweet by a now former employee using the agency's official Twitter account that calls President Donald Trump a "delusional communist" does not reflect the views of the agency or the state's governor.
• Yenny Saras, an Indonesian veterinarian, said a team rescued an endangered female orangutan with a young baby, which later died, on Indonesia's Sumatra island when the mother was blinded after being shot at least 74 times with an air gun.
• Catherine Pugh, Baltimore's mayor, resigned from the University of Maryland Medical System's board of directors after it became public that the hospital network had bought about 100,000 of her self-published Healthy Holly children's books.
• John Bourque, a Nashville, Tenn., police sergeant, suffered minor injuries when he was dragged along a street by a four-wheeler as about 100 dirt bikes, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles illegally swarmed into the city's downtown.
• Nicholas Oates, a 25-year-old Missouri man, faces arson and other charges after police in Venice Beach, Calif., said he entered a mall store, took books from shelves and began to light them on fire, causing shoppers to flee in panic as people reported an active shooter.
• Harry Krame, 65, of Fair Lawn, N.J., who checked out The Family Book Of Verse by Lewis Gannet from his school library when he was 13, returned the book 53 years later, saying he found it while cleaning and felt guilty that he had kept it overdue for so many years.
• Dwayne Zimmerman, 45, was arrested and accused of being drunk when he went to a home in Brooksville, Fla., where he argued with a woman who was making pancakes on the porch and threw a bowl her, breaking it and spattering her with pancake batter, authorities said.
• Andrew Bautsch, executive director of the Louisiana Republican Party, arrested just hours after his wedding, faces charges that include battery, trespass and resisting an officer after a confrontation with a police officer working security at a hotel in New Orleans.
• June Shannon, 39, the reality television star known as "Mama June" and the mother of Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, was arrested on drug possession charges after deputies found Shannon and a friend with crack cocaine and a pipe at a gas station in Macon County, Ga., authorities said.
A Section on 03/19/2019