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Lt. Kent O’Donnell

of the Yellowstone County sheriff’s office said a man napping in a Montana cornfield is “incredibly lucky” to be alive after he was run over by a combine, adding that the man, whose name was not released, suffered cuts requiring stitches and may need skin grafts.

Pope Benedict XVI

is joining Twitter, the Vatican announced, saying the 85-year-old pontiff will start Tweeting from a personal account, perhaps before the end of the year.

Eric Holder, the U.S. attorney general, told University of Baltimore students he will speak with President Barack Obama and with his own family to decide whether he will stay on as the nation’s chief lawenforcement officer, adding that another factor is also, “Do I have some gas left inthe tank?”

Gregg Welk, a TV cameraman for KPIX-TV, is back at work a day after a group of young men punched him and stole his camera while he was on assignment on a busy Oakland, Calif., street.

Casey James Fury, 24, a painter and sandblaster who has said he set two fires that caused about $450 million in damage to the USS Miami, a nuclearpowered submarine, because he was trying to get out of work, pleaded guilty in Portland, Maine, to two counts of arson.

Vice President Joe Biden

taped a cameo appearance for the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation in July, which will air Thursday.

Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham, bemoaned the re-election of President Barack Obama, whom the younger Graham has accused of “waving his fist before God” by supporting abortion rights and same-sex marriage, adding: “I want to warn America: God is coming around. He will judge sin, and it won’t be pretty.”

Peter Salovey, 54, Yale University’s provost and a renowned scholar in the field of psychology, has been selected as the next president of the New Haven, Conn., school.

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