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Michelle Obama, the first lady, is expanding her push for America to drink more water and announced new support and recommitments for the Drink Up campaign from seven companies.

Stephen Hershey Jr., a Republican state senator in Maryland, was ordered by a federal judge to stop using campaign materials that mimic the look of the famous chocolate bar.

Robert Bailey, a retired coal miner from Princeton, W.Va., who suffers from black lung disease, urged senators at a Capitol Hill hearing to help clear a backlog of benefit claims of fellow miners who have the disease.

Janyl Jumadinova, who is from Kyrgyzstan and says her culture holds a firm belief in spirits, and Oliver Bonham-Carter exchanged vows in Forest Lawn Cemetery, the largest cemetery in Omaha, Neb.

Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway was among those attending memorial services as the nation marked the third anniversary of Anders Behring Breivik's attacks that killed 77 people in Oslo and on Utoya island.

Robert Durst, 71, a New York City real estate heir who admitted killing his neighbor a decade ago in Texas and later was acquitted after claiming self-defense, was charged in Houston with criminal mischief, accused of urinating on candy at a drugstore.

Jordie Callahan, 28, an Ohio man convicted in March along with his girlfriend, Jessica Hunt, 33, of enslaving a mentally disabled woman for two years through intimidation, threats and abuse, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

John Land and his wife, Janice Land, are facing charges of vulnerable-adult abuse and false imprisonment in Maryland, accused of keeping their autistic, 22-year-old twin sons locked in a basement room at night with no furniture and a tiny window for light.

Dwight McGinnis Jr., 67, of Raleigh, N.C., was charged in Maryland with vulnerable-adult neglect, accused of leaving his mother, 98, sitting alone in his truck in a casino parking garage for nearly five hours with no food or water while the temperature was 81 degrees.

Sadie Silver, 40, a Brooklyn, N.Y., elementary school principal, and Michael Acosta, 34, were arrested on charges of trying to smuggle heroin and prescription drugs into the Coxsackie Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison.

A Section on 07/23/2014

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