In the news

■ David Holt, mayor of Oklahoma City, wrote on his Twitter account that after months of trying, Will Rogers World Airport has sold out and won’t restock shirts reading “Nothing Tips Like A Cow,” a reference to a debunked myth that someone can sneak into a pasture and push over sleeping bovines, saying “the joke has run its course.”

■ Teresa Roth, 34, is accused of making her 5-yearold son take 28 unnecessary medications and undergo unnecessary medical treatments for nearly two years to collect disability checks, with sheriff’s deputies in Hall County, Ga., saying the child was in a wheelchair and on a feeding tube even though he was not sick.

■ Wyatt Burggraff, a 4-year-old born with spina bifida, provided worldwide inspiration after a video of him in his wheelchair bouncing on a trampoline with a special needs coordinator at TNT Kid’s Fitness & Gymnastics in Fargo, N.D., was posted on the gym’s Facebook page as part of a charity fundraiser.

■ Shane Mele, 40, of Riviera Beach, Fla., was charged with grand theft after authorities said he stole commemorative presidential dollar coins worth $33,000 and ran them through grocery store change machines, getting only their face value. ■ Richard Pick was sentenced in Louisiana to 15 years in prison on an attempted murder charge for shooting his wife, Kimberly Pick, in the back as she was walking away and their 10-year-old daughter was begging him not to kill her mother.

■ Jonathan Epperson, a Navy air traffic controller, has been nominated for the Navy’s Vice Admiral Robert B. Pirie Air Traffic Controller of the Year award after he guided a pilot to a successful emergency landing last year.

■ Francis Emanuele, 38, of Downers Grove, Ill., was sentenced to 24 years in prison in the methadone-induced death of a 15-year-old Spanish foreign exchange student after investigators determined that he had given her the drug.

■ David Collier, 62, of Orlando, Fla., is suing Combe Products Inc., a consumer products company that manufactures Just For Men hair dye, after he says he suffered permanent scarring and discoloration on his face from using the product.

■ Thomas Harger, 31, a St. Louis police officer, was charged in the theft of a cellphone after he was caught on video hiding the phone under paperwork as its owner was being booked into jail, authorities say.