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Matthew Alan Hamilton, 38, of Beaverton, Ore., has been charged with drunken driving and driving with a suspended license after he crashed through an overpass guard rail and dangled above a busy highway for nearly an hour until he could be rescued this weekend, police said, adding that Hamilton had a blood alcohol content of 0.50 percent, more than six times the 0.08 percent limit in Oregon.

Keyuree Satam, 17, a junior at Memphis’ Lausanne Collegiate School who aced the ACT college-entrance exam last year, has now scored a perfect 2,400 on the SAT.

Tandi Reddick, spokesman for the Georgia Lottery, said workers are making progress in repairing some machines that were taking a long time to process tickets for Wednesday’s $425 million Powerball drawing, adding that she did not know how widespread the problem was.

Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., announced that he will seek re-election so he can continue leading the state in its recovery from superstorm Sandy, saying, “The public needs to know that I’m in this for the long haul.”

Stephen Bryant, president of Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, said the company will do “all the things necessary to get things back to normal” after one of its workers breached a gas line, leading to a large explosion in Springfield last week.

James Brown, 24, has been charged in Sterling Heights, Mich., with first degree murder in the killing of four suspected escorts whose bodies were found stuffed in the trunks of abandoned cars in Detroit last year.

Carla Bruni, France’s former first lady, said she disagrees with her husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, and supports a plan to allow same sex marriage and adoption, telling the French Vogue: “My husband is opposed for reasons linked to his political vocation, because he sees people as groups of thousands rather than people we know personally.”

Front Section, Pages 1 on 11/27/2012

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