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Robert Rizzo, the former city manager of Bell, Calif., who was convicted in a corruption scheme that nearly bankrupted the city, was ordered to make restitution of $8.8 million and sentenced to 12 years in prison by Judge Kathleen Kennedy, who told him, “You did some very, very bad things for a very long time.”

Barrett Griner IV found a summons for jury duty in his mailbox that was addressed to “IV Griner,” the name of his 5-year-old German shepherd, a mix-up the Cumberland County, N.J., judiciary coordinator said likely occurred because the computer mistook the Roman numeral for Griner’s first name.

Prince William of Britain, his wife, Kate, and their baby son, George, arrived in Sydney to the cheers of thousands of fans as they kicked off a tour of Australia after wrapping up a 10-day trip around New Zealand.

David Shaff, the Water Bureau administrator in Portland, Ore., said officials were preparing to flush 38 million gallons of treated water because a 19-year-old was caught urinating into a city reservoir.

Neil Allan MacInnis, 19, of Christiansburg, Va., pleaded guilty to four felony charges in the shooting and wounding of two women at a community college inside a Virginia mall last April.

Nico Melendez, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman, said officials found an 8-inch knife inside an enchilada in a passenger’s bag at a Northern California airport and that the unidentified woman, who said she had no idea how the weapon got into her homemade food, may face a fine.

George Zambellas, the head of Britain’s Royal Navy, warned that his country’s defenses would be damaged if Scotland breaks away after a September referendum, adding that even if Scotland had a separate navy, “the two components would not add up to the sum of the whole.”

Owen Ezell and Emmett Ezell, twins who were conjoined at birth last summer and separated a month later, were released from the Dallas hospital that’s been their home since birth, said their mother, Jenni Ezell, who added that the boys are doing “really well” and “flirt with all of the girls.”

Edward Cocaine, a 34-year-old Fort Lauderdale, Fla., man who was arrested on drug-possession charges, faced questions about his name from a baffled county judge and explained, “My great-grandparents came over here from Greece, and they changed it.”

Front Section, Pages 1 on 04/17/2014

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