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Jason Andreozzi, who police said was riding a camel down the streets of Park City, Utah, as attendees of the Sundance Film Festival packed the town, was cited for obstructing traffic and issued a warning for handing out fliers to promote a movie he directed that didn’t make it into the festival lineup.

Argenis Chavez said his brother, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, continues to recover nearly six weeks after undergoing cancer surgery and is expected to return to Caracas in the “coming days,” although the president’s medical team will decide when he leaves Cuba.

Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state under President George W. Bush, has joined CBS News as a contributor.

Joe Biden, the vice president, said in an interview with CNN that the reason he has been called upon to close deals with congressional Republicans is because he has developed trust with lawmakers over four decades in Washington and because they know he speaks for President Barack Obama, adding that while he and Obama have occasionally disagreed about tactics, they have never differed on policy.

Catherine Giaquinto, 36, of Warwick, N.Y., faces numerous charges in New Jersey over allegations she was drunk and wearing only an unzipped jacket when she crashed her car into a stone retaining wall in New Jersey and then drove off.

George Barris, the auto customizer who transformed a 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car into the 19-foot-long black, bubble topped car that was used in the 1960s Batman TV show, has sold the original Batmobile at auction for $4.2 million.

Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City, is feeling better, his spokesman said, two days after the 88-year old Democrat entered the hospital with fluid in his lungs and swollen ankles.

Charles Ble Goude, a former Ivory Coast youth leader who was arrested in Ghana last week, has been charged with war crimes over his accused role in violence linked to the West African country’s disputed presidential election two years ago.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 01/22/2013

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