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Giulio Cesare Fava, the mayor of Falciano del Massico, Italy, who jokingly issued a decree making it illegal to die there because the village has no cemetery and is feuding with a nearby town that has one, said, “The ordinance has brought happiness. Unfortunately, two elderly citizens disobeyed.”

Gerald W. Mcentee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said the group “proudly and enthusiastically” endorses President Barack Obama’s re-election effort.

Jaycee Dugard, 31, who was held for 18 years by Phillip and Nancy Garrido and since her rescue in 2009 has been living at an undisclosed California location, made her first public appearance over the weekend at a New York humanitarian awards ceremony but said she plans to remain in hiding until her teenage daughters, who were conceived by rape, are mature enough to understand what happened.

Sherrie Gavan of Imperial, Mo., has been charged with third-degree assault after police say she used a baseball bat to hit the man she believed was supplying her teenage son with heroin.

Dru Anne Neil, spokesman for the Gettysburg Foundation, said bobble-head dolls of John Wilkes Booth, who killed President Abraham Lincoln, have been pulled off the shelves at Gettysburg National Military Park’s visitors’ center.

Pedro Pimentel Rios, 54, a former member of an elite Guatemalan military force, has been sentenced to a 6,060 years in prison for his role in the killings of 101 people in a 1982 massacre, a largely symbolic sentence, since Guatemalan law sets the maximum at 50 years.

Dan Dolan, who is seeking the GOP nomination for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District seat, tried to woo some Democrats when he mistakenly spoke at that party’s convention, which was being held two hours before a Republican one, at the county courthouse in Albia.

Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front party, said she has obtained the 500 signatures from elected officials necessary to formalize her bid for the presidency.

Brad Ray Adams, 36, who Provo, Utah, police say met a male Brigham Young University student on Craigslist and had sexual relations with him, then tried to extort sexual favors and money when the 21-yearold tried to end the relationship, has been charged with attempted forcible sodomy.