• Thomas Karasinski and Robert Troy, two New York state troopers at LaGuardia Airport, pulled out their credit cards and paid for a $600 ticket to Florida so that Jordana Judson, 23, could attend a vigil for a family friend slain during the Feb. 14 shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
• Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News personality and former New York prosecutor, pleaded guilty to driving 95 mph in a 65 mph zone and was fined $300 after a state trooper clocked her Cadillac doing 119 mph in November on a highway in Nichols, N.Y.
• Lynn Spruill, mayor of Starkville, Miss., said she was disappointed that aldermen voted 4-3 to deny a permit for the city's first gay-pride parade, saying it sends the message "that we are not the inclusive community that I believe us to be."
• Marilyn Hartman, 66, of Grayslake, Ill., described as a "serial stowaway" by prosecutors, pleaded innocent to felony theft and other charges for thwarting security at a Chicago airport in January and flying to London before anyone realized she didn't have a ticket.
• Courtney Tullos, 22, an emergency medical technician in Hinds County, Miss., spotting a burning van that had crashed into a tree, dragged a paraplegic man from the vehicle and returned to get his wheelchair just before the van's tires exploded.
• Kevin Sullivan, fire chief of Ferndale, Mich., urged people to call pest-control professionals after a man lit a smoke bomb to get rid of skunks in a crawl space, sparking a fire that destroyed his rented house.
• Christina Ochoa, who denies any wrongdoing, is facing a lawsuit filed by a Wichita, Kan., bank demanding that she return about $11,600, money that came from more than 50 withdrawals made from an ATM that was spitting out $100 bills in place of $5s.
• Greg Sullivan, a former Massachusetts inspector general, called it "outrageous" for state transportation officials to spend $100,000 in a no-bid contract to install a private, 115-square-foot bathroom and adjoining kitchenette for board members about 40 steps from a spacious public bathroom on the same floor.
• Tony Kuey, a Los Angeles police officer, said a rape suspect seen drinking something during a 6-mile-long freeway chase and whose car stopped after bumping into a center median, died at the scene from a mix of salt and potassium cyanide.
A Section on 02/22/2018