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Hunter Lacey, the owner of two Bar 3 Bar-BQ restaurants in Montana, will receive an undisclosed settlement from Dex Media Inc. after he sued the phone book company for placing an ad for the eateries in the “Animal Carcass Removal” section of its yellow pages, a listing that made him the butt of a Jay Leno joke.

Bobby Roberts, a British circus owner, was found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a performing elephant after a court was shown secretly filmed footage of a groom hitting 58-year-old Anne with a pitchfork, behavior Roberts said he did not condone.

Matthew Alan Hamilton, 38, whose pickup crashed through a guardrail and dangled from a bridge above an Oregon highway for nearly an hour before firefighters could rescue him, was to be taken to jail on charges of driving under the influence after he was treated for his injuries and released from the hospital.

Pope Benedict XVI said during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica that six newly elevated cardinals should resist political ambitions and instead be like Jesus, which “means not letting ourselves be allured by the worldly logic of power, but bringing into the world the light of truth and God’s love.”

Officer German Huerta of the San Antonio Police Department will be recognized by the city after he suffered smoke inhalation, cuts and burns while rescuing the driver of a car that he saw speed past him, hit a barrier and catch fire.

Juan Vaz, a Uruguayan activist and government aide who has been jailed for growing marijuana in his home, said he is seeking to end a contradiction that lets people in his country smoke pot but bans its sale or cultivation, saying the law “gives you no clue about where you can get it from.”

Sheriff James “Jimmy” Morris of Bledsoe County, Tenn., was arrested outside a Huddle House restaurant and charged with disorderly conduct after an employee called the restaurant’s manager and reported a fight in the parking lot.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 11/26/2012

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