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Grace Chapin, an admissions counselor at the University of Chicago who received a package addressed to “Henry Walton Jones Jr.,” the main character in the Indiana Jones movie series, said school officials were puzzled over the package containing a replica of the journal from Raiders of the Lost Ark, and she theorized it might be part of an “alternate reality” game where players plant clues for others.

Freddie Keitt, a 33-year-old homeless man, was arrested and accused of mugging Yvonne Sherwell-Demakopoulos, an 85-yearold retired actress, in the elevator of her Manhattan building and robbing three other women in New York.

Fidel Castro, who retired as president of Cuba in 2008, has been nominated for a seat in the country’s parliament from the municipality of Santiago de Cuba.

Michael Souza, 44, of Warwick, R.I., was charged with driving under the influence after he was pulled over in nearby Lincoln while driving to pick up his wife, Stephanie, who had been arrested on the same charge in Cranston.

Raja Awais Naeem, a Muslim who works for Harris Cab and manages a shuttle service called A-1 Shuttle, is suing the city of St. Louis, the Metropolitan Taxicab Commission and a private security company, saying he has been harassed and arrested for wearing religious garb in defiance of the commission’s dress code.

Dimitris Stratoulis, a Greek lawmaker from the Radical Left Coalition, was attacked by three men at a soccer match who he said identified themselves as members of the extreme right Golden Dawn party and then beat and threatened to kill him until spectators went to his aid.

Jack Roland Murphy, 75, a Florida jewel thief and surfer known as “Murph the Surf,” who spent nearly 20 years in prison for murder and has spent the past quarter-century telling inmates to turn their lives around, lost his bid for clemency after it was approved by Gov. Rick Scott but not others in the Florida Cabinet.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 12/17/2012

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