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Jason Carter, a 38-yearold lawyer and Democratic state lawmaker from Atlanta who is also the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, announced plans to run next year for governor of Georgia.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican running for election next year to a third term, introduced a bill that would ban abortions once a pregnancy reaches the 20-week mark, pushing Senate legislation that the Republican-controlled House passed earlier this year.
Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinoisan and the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, told reporters that Democrats overwhelmingly support increasing the federal minimum wage to about $10 an hour, higher than the $9 rate proposed by President Barack Obama.
Robert “Heshy” Bucholz, 39, a member of the Modern Whig party, won 36 votes to his Democratic opponent’s 24 to become an election judge in Philadelphia’s Rhawnhurst section and believes he may be the first Whig elected to public office in the city in nearly 160 years.
Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin’s 4-year-old grandson Tripp, filed a petition for custody last month saying he wants the child to be in his mother’s and father’s lives equally.
Heather Abbott of Newport, R.I., a victim of the Boston Marathon bombings, showed off her new prosthetic left leg, which will allow her to wear 4-inch heels, at the Warwick offices of Next Step Bionics and Prosthetics.
Anne Daigle-McDonald, a fourth-grade teacher in Florida, has returned to the classroom after a suspension for requiring one of her students, a Jehovah’s Witness, to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance on Sept. 11, school district officials said.
Walter Logan, 53, of Kokomo, Ind., was sentenced to 28 years in prison for a cocaine-fueled binge in which he killed a friend, Alex Shipp, 29, in November 2012 and stuffed his body inside an unplugged freezer.
Nicole Kurowski, 27, a gym teacher and cheerleader coach at Tulpehocken High School outside Reading, Pa., surrendered to face charges of institutional sexual assault, accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student.
David Dinkins, 86, a Democrat who was the first black mayor of New York and served one term in the early 1990s, was released from New York-Presbyterian Hospital after treatment for pneumonia.