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Tom Tancredo, former GOP representative and presidential candidate, plans to switch parties and run for Colorado governor on the American Constitution Party ticket, his spokesman said.

Deborah Woist, 52, of Lower Saucon Township, Pa., was cited for harassment after her 26-year-old son, Justin Novack, told police she scrubbed the bathroom, which hadn’t been cleaned in two months, with his toothbrush, then returned it to its holder.

Kacee Larson, 17, of Conrad, Iowa, has earned the nickname “The Deer Magnet” after hitting five deer in the past year, with the last crash totaling her minivan and leaving her with bruises on her arms from the air bag.

Dennis Hawkins, 48, of North Braddock, Pa., is being held in lieu of a $230,000 bond after police say he robbed a bank wearing a woman’s blond wig, fake breasts under a sweater and clown pants and using a toy BB gun he had shoplifted from a store.

Andy Mendelsohn

of Vector Management said the Kings of Leon, a band his f irm manages, was forced to cancel an outdoor concert in St. Louis after just three songs because of an onslaught of pigeon droppings from an infestation in the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre’s rafters.

John Allen Rubio, 29, of Brownsville, Texas, was found guilty of capital murder for beheading his common-law wife’s three children, all younger than 4, whom he initially said he killed because they were possessed.

Colton Harris-Moore, 19, also known as the “Barefoot Bandit,” has received book and movie offers while he is being held in Seattle as the primary suspect in at least 80 crimes, but his attorney says he’s not interested in selling his story.

David de Rothschild, 31, piloted a 60-foot sailboat, named the Plastiki, made mostly from 12,500 recycled plastic bottles into Sydney Harbor, ending an 8,000-nautical-mile voyage from San Francisco intended to raise awareness about the perils of plastic waste.

Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s deposed leader whose supporters launched street demonstrations that ended with an army crackdown and almost 90 people dead, marked his 61st birthday from exile with a call for peace on Twitter that said, “Please do not resort to violence. I don’t like it. I disagree with it.”

Front Section, Pages 1 on 07/27/2010

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