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Charles Larkin Cowart, 29, was arrested in Bunnell, Fla., over allegations that he refused orders by officers investigating a report of “an intoxicated male riding a horse” to dismount and “in an aggressive manner reared the horse back” and took off running, leading police on a half-hour chase through the town, according to the charging affidavit.

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 84, an influential ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbi, has issued a decree saying it was forbidden to own iPhones, and those who already had them must burn theirs.

Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah, an Islamist who Egyptian prosecutors say tore up an English copy of the Bible during a protest two weeks ago outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo against the anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims, has been referred to trial under the country’s blasphemy laws.

Gov. Jerry Brown, DCalif., has signed into law a measure that would allow self-driving cars on California’s roads, saying during a ceremony at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View that “we are looking at science fiction becoming reality in a self-driving car.”

Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian parachutist who has been planning a jump from a record altitude of 23 miles over New Mexico, will attempt the feat Oct. 8, project organizers announced.

Lynne Taylor, a Warwick, R.I., woman who was fined $15 for violating a noise ordinance after a neighbor complained that Taylor’s cockatoo cursed loudly, is appealing, contending the ordinance is unconstitutional because it gives no parameters for what noise constitutes a violation.

Bonnie Franklin, 68, who starred as single mom Ann Romano in the CBS comedy One Day at a Time, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is undergoing treatment, her family said in a statement.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 09/26/2012

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