• Micky Hammon, 60, the former Republican majority leader of the Alabama House, was sentenced to three months in federal prison and ordered to reimburse campaign donors $51,000 after pleading guilty to using campaign funds for personal expenses in 2017.
• Tyler Tannahill, a Republican congressional candidate in Kansas, said he's sticking with plans to raffle an AR-15 rifle to raise funds for his campaign, even though authorities said a similar style of weapon was used in this week's shooting at a Florida high school.
• Devin Custalow, 25, of New York City, waited for nearly 30 minutes for the mystery man with yellow shoes she met in October on a subway train, but he never arrived at the billboard she used to ask him to meet her at 1 p.m. on Valentine's Day.
• Margo Davidson, 55, a Pennsylvania lawmaker, is facing charges that, while driving a taxpayer-funded car with a suspended license, she left the scene after rear-ending a car in January and hit another vehicle in February when she pulled out of a driveway, state police said.
• Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's prime minister, has barred government ministers from having sexual relations with their staff members after news surfaced that his deputy, Barnaby Joyce, had an affair with a former spokesman, who is now expecting a baby.
• Janizia Ross, 17, who served an in-school suspension at a high school in Alexandria, Ala., for asking her girlfriend to the prom, said school officials are now saying they can go as a couple after Lambda Legal, an advocate for same-sex rights, complained about the punishment.
• Raymond Barlow, 29, of Westfield, Vt., faces fines of more than $700 after wildlife officials said he illegally transported two young lizards into the state, including a dwarf caiman, which can grow to more than 5 feet long, and a water monitor, which can reach 6 feet in length.
• Matthew Wade, sheriff of Calhoun County, Ala., called a female day care worker "a hero" for preventing a gunman, who was later arrested, from entering the facility when he tried to take his 1-year-old daughter.
• Conner Shelton, 18, of Lancaster, Pa., who attends the University of Delaware, filed to become the seventh teen to run for Kansas governor, calling his candidacy "an experiment of sorts" in a state that doesn't have age or residency requirements for the office.
A Section on 02/16/2018