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Clay Aiken, 35, the former American Idol runner-up, announced he would seek the Democratic nomination for the 2nd Congressional District seat held by Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina.

Rob Ford, the Toronto mayor who has admitted to smoking crack cocaine while in a drunken stupor, said police singled him out for a jaywalking ticket in British Columbia because of who he is.

Maria Bartiromo, who left CNBC in November after 20 years, will launch her two-hour weekday Fox Business Network program starting Feb. 24 and will be on the air 8-10 a.m. Central time.

Chip Saltsman, a Republican operative who ran former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign in 2008, was hired to run GOP campaigns in the Tennessee House.

Michael Douglas McDowell, 57, a Fort Worth man who deceived family, friends and government officials into believing he was an Army brigadier general, pleaded guilty to impersonating a public servant and also admitted to bigamy and was sentenced to five years of probation in each case.

Jennifer Jones, who stopped to help after a crash on a Honolulu freeway, reported that a man involved in the wreck stole her car, leaving behind an injured passenger.

Amy Sabani, 25, Sarah Seckinger, 23, and Amber Kariolich, 28, all waitresses at a restaurant in Caledonia, Ill., said a customer handed each of them a $5,000 check and told them to use the money for school and “everything else in life.”

Donald Adams III, who was left paralyzed from the shoulders down when his relatives tipped over a portable toilet while he was inside, has settled a Pennsylvania lawsuit against the toilet manufacturer, the relatives and others for $5 million.

Caroline Biden, Vice President Joe Biden’s niece, will see charges that she scuffled with New York City police dismissed if she stays out of trouble for six months.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 02/06/2014

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