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Garrett O’Hanlon, 22, Dennis Codrington, 23, and Matt Foley, 23, jumped down onto New York City subway tracks to rescue a stranger who had hit his head and stumbled onto the tracks, with the three good Samaritans and the unconscious man making it back on the platform, with a help up from bystanders, just before the next train arrived.

Darnell Williams, 18, has been charged in Oklahoma City with assault and battery, child abuse and robbery over allegations he struck his 8-month-old daughter with a gun as he and the child’s mother argued over her income tax refund.

Michelle Obama, 49, jokingly told talk-show host Rachael Ray that her new hairstyle “is my midlife crisis,” adding that she cut her bangs because she can’t get a sports car and won’t be allowed to bungee jump.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said his son, former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., is under “tight medical supervision” as his struggle with bipolar disorder has been compounded by recent legal troubles over allegations he misused more than $750,000 in campaign funds, and his wife, Sandi, filed false tax returns.

Serge Charnay, a French man who perched atop a crane in Nantes for four days to demand visiting rights with his son, has climbed down after Justice Minister Christiane Taubira met with SOS Papa, an activist group for divorced fathers.

David Corn, the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine who broke the story of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s remarks that 47 percent of Americans “believe they are victims,” has won the political reporting prize from the George Polk Awards in Journalism.

Mamphela Ramphele, 65, a medical doctor who became an anti-apartheid activist and a leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, has formed a new political party to compete against the governing African National Congress.

Precious Allen, 31, a woman accused of helping her 15-year-old daughter beat up another teenage girl at a Cincinnati high school, contends that the other teenager attacked her daughter and she simply was trying to pull the two girls apart.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 02/19/2013

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