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Lauren Beth Czekala-Chatham, who married her wife, Dana Ann Melancon, in California but lived with her spouse in Mississippi until their separation in 2010, is asking Mississippi to recognize her out-of-state gay marriage so she can get a divorce.

Prince George, Britain’s youngest royal, will be christened next month in the Chapel Royal at St. James’s Palace.

Big Ed Beckley, a Texas motorcycle stuntman, won the right to try to re-create Evel Knievel’s Snake River Canyon jump on the 40th anniversary of the failed effort after bidding $943,000 for a two-year lease on the Idaho land near Twin Falls where the jump took place.

Gene Kimpton, a police officer in Carrollton, Texas, responding to a report of an emergency situation in a home, helped a mother in labor deliver her baby boy and wrapped him in a towel until paramedics arrived and cut the umbilical cord.

Neal Adams, a comic-book artist who left more than 100 of his sketches in a New York City taxi, is using his talent to try to find them by plastering a sketch of the cabdriver and his lost bag around the city.

Beau Biden, 44, Delaware’s attorney general, is holding a $1,200-per-person fundraiser this weekend at the home of his father, Vice President Joe Biden, more than a month after undergoing a “successful procedure” at a Texas cancer center.

George W. Bush, the former president, said after kicking off the competitive part of his Texas golf tournament for wounded military members that he’s feeling “pretty good” after undergoing a heart procedure last month.

Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, was at Harvard University to accept the school’s humanitarian of the year prize.

Yahya Jammeh, the Gambian president who took power in the tiny West African country after a 1994 coup, said in his address to the United Nations General Assembly that homosexuality, greed and obsession with world domination “are more deadly than all natural disasters put together.”

Michael Nutter, Philadelphia’s mayor, said in Washington that the United States needs a solution to street violence on the level of the anti-terrorism measures created after the 9/11 attacks because too many “black men are getting slaughtered.”

Front Section, Pages 1 on 09/28/2013

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