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Gov. Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican who has signed several anti-abortion measures during his first two years in office, told a crowd of fellow abortion opponents at a rally outside the Kansas Statehouse to mark the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision to continue the fight, adding: “There’s joy in what you’re doing and keep it up. Keep marching. Keep moving.”

David Cunningham, 22, was arrested in Clarksville, Tenn., and charged with public intoxication over accusations that he was stumbling around a woman’s yard, repeatedly yelling “zombies,” police said.

Reps. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., and Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., have joined forces to get Congress to award the four girls killed in Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963 with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor that Congress can bestow.

Nechemya Weberman, 54, a religious counselor in New York City’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, has been sentenced to 103 years in prison for molesting a girl who went to him with questions about her faith.

Chenin Duclos, 32, has filed suit against the New York City Police Department after she and eight other bystanders were hit by bullets, ricochets and fragments outside the Empire State Building when two officers opened fire on a man suspected of gunning down his former co-worker.

Tina Marie Alberson, a Dallas woman whose 10-year-old stepson died after she denied him water, even as temperatures soared to more than 100 degrees, has been sentenced to 85 years in prison in the July 2011 death of Jonathan James.

Earl Martinez, 28, who has been on dialysis for 18 months and has been waiting more than a year for a kidney transplant, is working to find a donor by any means necessary, including sitting along the side of the road in Beaverton, Ore., holding a sign that reads, “Need Kidney Donor.”

James Cyrus Gilbert

has filed suit against the Georgia Department of Driver Services, contending that his rights were violated when the state rejected his application for three vanity plates - 4GAYLIB, GAYPWR and GAYGUY - all which make reference to his sexual orientation.

Laurie Lauria

wants an armed guard at her child’s elementary school, so much so that the Flagler Beach, Fla., woman has given the school district the money to pay for an armed deputy at the school.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 01/23/2013

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