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Silvio Berlusconi, 77, the billionaire former Italian prime minister, had his one-year prison sentence for tax fraud commuted to community service and will be required to work at least four hours a week caring for the elderly.

Sgt. Chad Adams, a police officer in Pulaski Township, Pa., spent two months dressed as an Amish woman in hopes of catching a man suspected of exposing himself to Amish children, and said members of the conservative sect were “not at all” concerned about his cross-dressing methods and even lent him bonnets and dresses.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 87, a Nobel laureate and author of books such as One Hundred Years of Solitude, was released from a Mexico City hospital after eight days of treatment for pneumonia and related problems, but his family said he is “very fragile.”

Caleb Walker and Cody Walker, the brothers of actor Paul Walker, who died in a car crash in November in the midst of filming Fast & Furious 7, are stepping in to complete their brother’s scenes, Universal Pictures said.

Rachael Michelle Rapraeger, 33, a former radiology technician in Macon, Ga., pleaded guilty to 10 counts of reckless conduct and a count of computer forgery after she was accused of filing inaccurate mammogram results at Perry Hospital in central Georgia because she got behind at work.

Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, praised a shooting that killed an Israeli man and wounded his wife and son on the eve of the week-long Jewish holiday of Passover and said the attack “brought back life to the path of resistance” against Israel, a longtime enemy of Hamas.

Stefen Johnson, 24, a guard at the Bubinga Lounge in Reno, Nev., was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in the killing of Victor Victoria-Acevedo, 23, who posted negative Facebook comments about the nightclub’s security.

President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti will visit the U.S. next month to discuss with President Barack Obama issues including security and counter terrorism, trade, development and energy cooperation.

Jordan Linn Graham, 22, a Montana woman who pleaded guilty to pushing her husband off a cliff in Glacier National Park last summer, filed a notice of appeal over her 30-year prison sentence for his death.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 04/16/2014

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