SESSIONS CALLS FOR AGGRESSIVE PROSECUTION

» Attorney General WASHINGTON Jeff Sessions announced Monday that U.S. attorneys will more aggressively enforce the law that makes it a crime for gun buyers to lie on their federal background checks, one of several steps Justice Department officials outlined as part of the Trump administration’s response to last month’s deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla. The Justice Department also will increase the presence of law enforcement officers at schools and will review the way law enforcement agencies respond to tips from the public, Sessions said. Lying on a federal background check when purchasing a firearm is a felony that can be punished by five years in prison, but the crime rarely is prosecuted.

Latest nor’easter could dump a foot or more of snow.

BOSTON» Winter-weary New Englanders are preparing for blizzard conditions, more than a foot of snow and high winds as the third major nor’easter in two weeks bears down on the Northeast. The National Weather Service on Monday issued a blizzard warning for much of the Massachusetts coast, a winter storm warning for most of New England. The storm is expected to hit late Monday.

Hurricane center updates Irma death toll.

MIAMI» The death toll from Hurricane Irma’s catastrophic rampage across the Caribbean and the southeastern U.S. has risen to 44 fatalities directly caused by its strong winds and heavy rains, plus 85 fatalities indirectly linked to the storm, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Eighty of the deaths indirectly linked to the hurricane came in Florida, caused by falls during storm preparations, vehicle accidents, carbon monoxide poisoning from generators, chain saw accidents and electrocutions, the report said.

Bobbi Kristina Brown’s ex accused of striking his girlfriend.

FLA.» Nick SANFORD,

Gordon, the ex-partner of Bobbi Kristina Brown, has been arrested. The Orlando Sentinel reports the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to calls about a possible domestic disturbance around 1 a.m. Saturday. An arrest report says his live-in girlfriend told deputies she’d picked up Gordon from a Sanford bar and that he began to strike her on the right side of her cheek area several times.

Bizarre battle over body of Manson won by grandson.

ANGELES» A grandson of LOS cult leader Charles Manson won the bizarre California court battle Monday over the killer’s body. Kern County Superior Court Commissioner Alisa Knight ruled that Jason Freeman can retrieve the remains of Manson that have been on ice in the Bakersfield morgue since he died in November. The fight over his corpse devolved into a circus of sorts with friends filing competing wills purportedly signed by the infamous inmate while kin began to come out of the woodwork to also stake a claim to the killer’s body and an estate that could include lucrative rights to songs Manson wrote or to license his image and other material.

Locklear charged with battery against sheriff’s deputies who reported to domestic violence call.

VENTURA

Prosecutors have decided not to charge Heather Locklear with felony domestic violence after her dramatic arrest in Southern California two weeks ago, multiple sources said Monday. One source said the “Melrose Place” actress won’t face any domestic violence charges at all — only misdemeanors involving allegations she kicked and shoved sheriff’s deputies responding to a call at her Thousand Oaks residence Feb. 25. — Denver Post wire services