DALLAS — Before a pregnant, brain-dead Texas woman was taken off life support over the weekend at the end of a long legal battle, her husband said he decided to name what would have been the couple's second child.

Erick Munoz said Monday he gave the 23-week-old fetus the name Nicole, the middle name of his late wife, Marlise Munoz. He would not say why he chose to name the fetus.

Munoz said doctors at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth indicated to him that the fetus would likely have been a girl, though his attorneys previously said the fetus suffered from lower body deformation that made it impossible to determine its sex.

“They think it was a female,” Munoz said in a brief telephone interview with The Associated Press.

Munoz said his wife will be cremated and there are no plans for memorial or funeral services because the family is concerned that protesters would show up.

“She made me a better man, and I thank her for it. I thank her very much,” he said.

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — Classes were canceled but counselors will be available to students after a 16-year-old boy set himself on fire at a suburban Denver high school in an apparent suicide attempt.Counselors will be at Standley Lake High School on Tuesday morning.Investigators had combed through the school with bomb detection dogs as a precaution, and no devices were discovered, Westminster Police Department spokeswoman Cheri Spottke said.“We don't have any indication that there's any threat against the high school. We do believe that this is a suicide attempt,” she said.Investigators were also talking to students, faculty members and family members to find out what happened, she said.The boy, whose name has not been released, was critically injured when he started the fire in the school's cafeteria at about 7:15 a.m. Monday.