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Mary Cheney, who is gay and married her longtime domestic partner last year, took to Facebook to criticize her older sibling, Wyoming U.S. Senate candidate Liz Cheney, for her stance that same-sex marriage should be decided by voters instead of judges or legislators, saying, “For the record, I love my sister, but she is dead wrong on the issue of marriage.”

Konstantin Altunin, an artist who fled Russia after authorities seized his paintings depicting President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in women’s underwear, is seeking asylum in France.

Christopher Lamont Richardson Jr., 18, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a firearm on school property, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and discharging a firearm within city limits in a shooting that injured a 15-year-old fellow student at a North Carolina high school.

Nancy Bronner of Amelia, Ohio, filed a complaint against a Kentucky funeral home after she discovered her teenage son’s cremated remains in a plastic shopping bag inside his urn, because, she said, “it’s not right to put a human person’s ashes in a Wal-Mart bag.”

Carlos Mejias, a man who shot two U.S. Embassy employees in a Caracas strip club, was convicted of attempted murder by a Venezuelan court and sentenced to 5½ years in prison.

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a Republican supporter of the immigration bill passed by the Senate in June, was heckled by several people who yelled “no amnesty” during a speech on an unrelated topic at the annual meeting of Tea Party group Americans for Prosperity.

Mario Nunez, 39, a purported former Sinaloa drug cartel lieutenant accused of involvement in the killings of more than 350 people found in mass graves in Mexico in 2011, was captured in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, officials said.

Ernest Chris Chumbley, 48, a Kentucky man charged in the death of his wife, confessed to fatally shooting 44-year-old Virginia Chumbley and told police she had asked him to end her suffering from breast cancer.

Robert Miles, a New York maintenance worker who was duped out of a winning $5 million scratch-off ticket in 2006 by two convenience-store workers who tried to cash it in six years later, will get his money soon, lottery officials said.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 09/01/2013

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