In the news

■ Jose Andres, an award-winning chef, tweeted a link to a news story about Bonnie Kimball, a school cafeteria worker in Canaan, N.H., who was fired a day after giving a free lunch to a student who couldn’t pay, calling her a hero and advertising job openings at his restaurants. ■ Warren Mitchell, a police sergeant in Dallas, said a man who rode a scooter to Dallas City Hall late at night died after jumping into the hip-deep exterior reflecting pool and not resurfacing.

■ Julie Flaherty, acting police chief in Arlington, Mass., said authorities are investigating the second suspicious fire at a rabbi’s home in less than a week, and trying to determine if those blazes and a fire at another rabbi’s home about 10 miles away are connected. ■ Tim Page, who had picked up a veteran at the airport, was driving on a freeway in Sacramento, Calif., when a yellow-andred tripod that authorities say was stolen from a California Department of Transportation crew was dropped from an overpass, smashing through the van’s windshield and impaling his passenger, who survived.

■ Victor Colon, who was caught on video calling another man a terrorist and waving a box-cutter at him aboard a bus in Paramus, N.J., has been charged with bias intimidation, police said.

■ Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer, announced that she is entering the race to join the 13-member board commissioners in Miami-Dade County, Fla., and plans to continue working to end gun violence.

■ James Spinney, police chief in Chelmsford, Mass., said a 37-year-old woman is expected to survive after being run over by her own car when her 9-year-old son, who was not injured, accidentally put the car into reverse while she was loading it.

■ Gerardo Becerra, 18, of Jackson, Wyo., filed assault and other claims against Vanessa Schultz, a Colorado police officer, and said in a lawsuit that he was running to catch a bus when Schultz, who was on vacation, heard a loud noise and detained him, pointing a gun at him.

■ Allie Friday, who opened a children’s unisex clothing store in Atlanta, said her daughter’s refusal to wear dresses or anything pink changed how she viewed kids’ clothing, and she wanted to open a “gender-neutral, safe space for all children who simply want to wear what they like, without judgment.”