In the news

■ Joe Sheeran, a spokesman for Maplewood, Minn., said police are re-examining the design of holsters issued to officers after a third-grader at a school got his finger on the trigger of a school liaison officer’s holstered gun, causing it to fire a bullet into the floor.

■ Summer Creel, 34, who relinquished parental rights to six of her seven children after being convicted in federal court in Oklahoma City of writing a counterfeit check, had herself medically sterilized after the judge hearing the case said he would consider it during her sentencing.

■ George Cordiner, a Scottish police inspector, said “every option has to be considered” after police, called by a farmer who thought a big cat had invaded his cow shed, had a 45-minute standoff with what turned out to be a large, stuffed toy tiger.

■ Paul Barker, a Boston restaurant owner, said he’s had some “very interested” people but no takers for his Valentine’s Day special where patrons, for $3,000, can order a burger that comes with a diamond engagement ring nestled in the bun.

■ Flavio Uribe, an orthodontics professor at the University of Connecticut dental school, was reprimanded after a selfie photo was shared in a private group chat showing him and several students with two severed heads used for medical research.

■ Gerald Spies, 34, of Wasilla, Alaska, charged with robbing an Anchorage restaurant, tried to evade police by burying a black, hooded jacket he wore during the caper in fresh snow about three blocks away but was caught when officers spotted a man “not dressed for the snowy weather.”

■ Latarsha Sanders, 43, of Brockton, Mass., pleaded innocent to murder charges after police told a judge she used a kitchen knife to stab her two sons, ages 8 and 5, to death and later told investigators it was part of a failed voodoo ritual.

■ Trevor Lane, 18, of Ooltewah, Tenn., was charged with improperly using 911 by calling to report a house fire when what he really wanted was help using the fire department’s “big ladders” to get his cat down from a tree where it had been stuck overnight, authorities said.

■ Alyssa Salgado, 19, complained to state day care regulators after her 2-yearold toddler’s thick eyebrows were waxed without permission at a day care in Pasco, Wash., saying workers “took it upon themselves to correct the way my daughter should look.”