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Bill de Blasio, New York’s mayor, said remarks by Vice President Joe Biden likening LaGuardia Airport to “some Third World country” while touting more modern airports weren’t the vice president’s “finest moment” and called them “inappropriate.”

Tricia Snider, 41, and Tom Watson, 47, were married at Iowa’s Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival and said it was the perfect place to exchange their vows about staying together “in good times and bacon” because they eat the pork product together every weekend.

Mark Harper, Britain’s immigration minister, resigned over the illegal employment of a foreign cleaner but explained in his resignation letter that he thought he had verified in 2007 that the cleaner’s documentation meant she could work in the country legally.

Makenzie Wethington, a 16-year-old North Texas girl who plummeted more than 3,000 feet to the ground in an Oklahoma skydiving accident last month, can now walk with assistance and is expected to fully recover.

Sgt. Tom Claymon of the Olmsted County sheriff ’s office in Minnesota said a Big Mouth Billy Bass, a motion-activated singing fish, apparently scared off an intruder who broke into the Hooked on Fishing bait and tackle shop in Rochester.

Hassan Rouhani, the president of Iran, donated $170,000 to the country’s only Jewish hospital as part of a pledge to pay more attention to that nation’s minority groups.

Ron Martin, 33, who was arrested in Frisco, Texas, for holding a sign warning drivers of a speed trap, saw his misdemeanor charge of violating a sign ordinance thrown out because the complaint didn’t specify how he violated the lengthy rule.

Richard Daley, 71, who was mayor of Chicago for 22 years before being succeeded by Rahm Emanuel in 2011, left a hospital after more than a week of tests to determine why he was feeling ill and disoriented during a business trip, but doctors and his family did not release any details on his health condition.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 02/09/2014

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