• Fran Goldman, a 90-year-old Seattle woman, didn't let a rare winter storm that dumped a foot of snow on the city keep her from walking 6 miles round-trip wearing boots and using walking sticks to make it to her first appointment for a coronavirus vaccination.
• Pablo Hasel, a Spanish rapper, will serve a 9-month sentence for insulting the monarchy and glorifying terrorism after his arrest ended a 24-hour standoff with police where he barricaded himself at a university in Lleida with dozens of supporters to avoid prison, portraying his case as a fight for free speech.
• Rita Reith, a battalion fire chief in Indianapolis, called it a "horrible tragedy" after about 100 animals, including dogs, parakeets and rabbits, died from smoke inhalation after an overnight fire filled a pet store with thick smoke and deadly gases.
• Elias Quezada, 7, who had climbed into his grandmother's garbage can in Tampa, Fla., while he was playing outside, escaped being crushed when the can was emptied into a garbage truck after the driver, Waldo Fidele, shut the truck down when he spotted something unusual drop in.
• Vladimir Chavdarov, a Bulgarian prosecutor, said customs officials at the Black Sea port of Varna confiscated more than 880 pounds of heroin, divided into 487 packages and hidden in asphalt rollers on a ship carrying goods from Iran.
• Treshawn Fox, 18, faces first-degree murder and other counts in the shooting of a 15-year-old in a convenience store parking lot in north St. Louis that also left a 70-year-old man with gunshot wounds in his legs, authorities said.
• Ryan Thompson, a spokesman for Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for seriously ill children in Ashford, Conn., said the camp will reopen in time for summer after investigators said they don't believe arson was responsible for a fire that destroyed several buildings.
• Stephen Gutierrez, 32, a Miami lawyer who drew worldwide notoriety after his pants caught on fire from a faulty e-cigarette battery that was in his pocket during a 2017 arson trial, has been arrested on a cocaine charge after being pulled over for driving without a working headlight, police said.