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Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civilrights activist Medgar Evers, who was gunned down 50 years ago in the driveway of his Mississippi home, has been selected to deliver the invocation at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration on Jan. 21.

Dawn Nguyen, 24, who is accused of lying on a form when she bought two guns later used by ex-convict William Spengler Jr. to kill two firefighters and wound three other first responders in Webster, N.Y., has pleaded innocent to a state charge of filing a falsified business record.

Cida Vieira, president of the Association of Prostitutes in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, said the group is organizing free English classes ahead of this year’s FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2014 World Cup, adding, “It will be important for the girls who will be able to use English to let their clients know what they are charging and learn about what turns them on.”

Douglas Kennedy, the late Robert F. Kennedy’s son who was acquitted of criminal charges in a maternity ward scuffle, has filed a defamation suit in White Plains, N.Y., against two nurses, Cari Luciano and Anna Lane, who said on television that he had hurt them.

Michelle Faye White, 34, has been sentenced in St. Louis to 15 years in prison for robbing a White Castle with a red water pistol.

Stephen Sweeney, New Jersey’s Democratic state Senate president, took aim at Gov. Chris Christie, saying the Republican governor’s “jobs package is a hurricane” and that perhaps Christie “prayed” for superstorm Sandy, a comment he immediately apologized for, although he said he stood by his point that Christie is “using the storm to paper over his failure to lead on” a host of issues.

Cinthya Moreno, an Alagoas state prisons spokesman, said guards at a northeastern Brazil prison caught a white cat slipping through a gate and found a cell phone, drills, small saws and other contraband taped to its body.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 01/09/2013

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