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Gerald Sapienza

and Nicole Angelillo tied the knot aboard Farmers Insurance’s “Love Float” in the 124th Rose Parade after the Chesapeake, Va., lovebirds won a parade wedding over three other couples in a nationwide contest.

Damon Balogh, 10, a Bristol, Va., boy who was saving his pennies to buy a train set, has donated his savings, about $114, to a Kingsport, Tenn., family that lost its home in a fire, saying the Farmer family needed the money more than he did.

Duane John, 34, driver of a Dodge Durango that careened off a road and into a creek, killing six people in the vehicle, has been charged in Neshoba County, Miss., with six counts of driving under the influence manslaughter.

Pope Benedict XVI

said during a New Year’s Day Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica that despite today’s terrorism, criminality and the inequality between rich and poor, he is convinced that peace will prevail in 2013 because the “numerous works of peace, of which the world is rich, are testimony to the innate vocation of humanity to peace.”

Chief Justice John Roberts

urged full financial support for the U.S. court system in his year-end report, saying the federal judiciary has been doing its part to carefully manage “its tiny portion of the federal budget” and doesn’t have other areas itcan cut without reducing the quality of judicial services.

Irving Pinsky, a Connecticut attorney seeking to sue the state on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor of the Newtown school massacre, in which Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults before committing suicide, has withdrawn the claim, which asserts that his client suffered “emotional and psychological trauma and injury” during the shootings, but said he might refile.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 01/02/2013

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