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Rielle Hunter, who has written a book, What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me, told ABC’s Good Morning America that she and the former presidential candidate “are no longer a couple,” although Edwards will still be involved with their 4-year-old daughter, Quinn, who lives with Hunter.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who faces a tough re-election battle, said she plans to skip the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., and will instead spend the week campaigning.

Raymond Carl Knudson, 50, who robbed a bank in April and then immediately drove to Oregon’s Gresham Police Department and confessed, telling officers he felt compelled to rob the bank after watching a documentary exploring the cause of the financial meltdown, has pleaded guilty.

Christopher Serino, the lead Sanford, Fla., police investigator in the Trayvon Martin shooting, has been transferred from detective work to a uniform patrol officer at his request, the department said.

Sol Moghadam

and his wife, Christine, an Irving, Calif., couple who traveled to Ghana with their two biological children to adopt four siblings, were detained at the airport by Ghanaian authorities, forced to spend a night in detention and remain in the country while police try to determine whether their documentation is legal, said officials.

Adam Longoria, 38, was sentenced in Great Bend, Kan., to life in prison without the chance of parole for the August 2010 murder of 14-year-old Alicia DeBolt.

David Rubenstein, managing director of The Carlyle Group investment firm, has paid $2.1 million at a New York auction for an original copy of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, said Seth Kaller, an expert on the document.

Lt. Gen. John Johnson, commander of the U.S. 8th Army in South Korea, presented relatives of Kim Jaehyun with the U.S. Defense Secretary’s Exceptional Public Service Award to honor the South Korean train engineer who died on a mission to rescue an American general in the early days of the Korean War.

Antonis Samaras, Greece’s prime minister, appointed Yannis Stournaras, 55, to serve as the country’s new finance minister, with the announcement coming on the same day as the resignation of Giorgos Vernikos, deputy minister for Greece’s Mercantile Marine Ministry.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 06/27/2012

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