Jose Andres, an award-winning chef, tweeted a link to a news story about Bonnie Kimball, a school cafeteria worker in Canaan, N.H., who was fired a day after giving a free lunch to a student who couldn’t pay, calling her a hero and advertising job openings at his restaurants.
Warren Mitchell, a police sergeant in Dallas, said a man who rode a scooter to Dallas City Hall late at night died after jumping into the hip-deep exterior reflecting pool and not resurfacing.
Julie Flaherty, acting police chief in Arlington, Mass., said authorities are investigating the second suspicious fire at a rabbi’s home in less than a week, and trying to determine if those blazes and a fire at another rabbi’s home about 10 miles away are connected.
Tim Page, who had picked up a veteran at the airport, was driving on a freeway in Sacramento, Calif., when a yellow-andred tripod that authorities say was stolen from a California Department of Transportation crew was dropped from an overpass, smashing through the van’s windshield and impaling his passenger, who survived.
Victor Colon, who was caught on video calling another man a terrorist and waving a box-cutter at him aboard a bus in Paramus, N.J., has been charged with bias intimidation, police said.
Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer, announced that she is entering the race to join the 13-member board of commissioners in Miami-Dade County, Fla., and plans to continue working to end gun violence.
James Spinney, police chief in Chelmsford, Mass., said a 37-year-old woman is expected to survive after being run over by her own car when her 9-year-old son, who was not injured, accidentally put the car into reverse while she was loading it.
Gerardo Becerra, 18, of Jackson, Wyo., filed assault and other claims against Vanessa Schultz, a Colorado police officer, and said in a lawsuit that he was running to catch a bus when Schultz, who was on vacation, heard a loud noise and detained him, pointing a gun at him.
Allie Friday, who opened a children’s unisex clothing store in Atlanta, said her daughter’s refusal to wear dresses or anything pink changed how she viewed kids’ clothing, and she wanted to open a “gender-neutral, safe space for all children who simply want to wear what they like, without judgment.”