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911 dispatcher in Tamir Rice case gets 8-day suspension

A 911 dispatcher who took a call that led to a white police officer’s fatal shooting of 12-year-old black boy who’d been playing with a pellet gun outside a Cleveland recreation center has been suspended for eight days.

 
EU court rules employers may ban headscarves under certain conditions

Private businesses in Europe can forbid Muslim women in their employ from wearing headscarves if the ban is part of a policy of neutrality within the company and not a sign of prejudice against a particular religion, the European Union Court of Justice said Tuesday.

 
Poland confirms Minnesota man was Nazi commander

Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man exposed as a former commander in an SS-led unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians in World War II, prosecutors said Monday.

Prized Stradivarius comes back to life

The three daughters of renowned violinist Roman Totenberg heard the sound of their late father’s Stradivarius for the first time since it was stolen nearly four decades ago.

Meow Madness mixes basketball and kittens

Watch out Villanova and Kentucky (and Arizona and Northwestern), there’s a new set of cats going wild for March Madness. Time for Meow Madness, coming in April.

 
Powerful winter storm clobbers Northeast US

A sloppy late-season storm lashed the Northeast with sleet and more than a foot of snow in some places Monday, paralyzing much of the Washington-to-Boston corridor.