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Joe Biden, the vice president who has not ruled out a 2016 presidential bid, promoted the White House’s job-creation efforts while visiting the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state of New Hampshire.

Rick Rolater of Eagle, Colo., was sentenced by a federal judge in Wyoming to two years of supervised probation and ordered to pay a $25,000 fine after he admitted to conspiring to smuggle fossils from China into the United States.

Katheryn Deprill, 27, who as a baby just a few hours old was abandoned in the bathroom of a Pennsylvania fast-food restaurant, said she has found her birth mother after a quest that began this month when she posted a photo of herself on Facebook holding up a sign reading, “Looking for my birth mother. … She abandoned me in the Burger King bathroom only hours old, Allentown PA. Please help me find her by sharing my post.”

Alicia Pederson, a Texas woman who learned CPR through the Dallas-based American Heart Association, where she holds an administrative job, used her training to resuscitate one of four puppies born to her dog, Izzy, that wasn’t breathing.

Christopher Miller, 40, who just completed a 15-year prison term for robbing a New Jersey shoe store, was arrested by police who say he went back there the day after his release and committed the same crime.

Richard Phillips, whose real-life ordeal as a hostage of Somali pirates was the subject of the movie Captain Phillips, will address graduates at the commencement of his alma mater, the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

Donald Schultz, the former host of Animal Planet’s Wild Recon show, was sentenced in California to two years’ probation and 200 hours of community service after admitting to trying to sell two endangered Iranian desert monitor lizards without a permit.

Karl Remon Thompson, a counselor to Attorney General Eric Holder, was selected by the Obama administration to serve as acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.

Mary Virginia Jones, 74, walked out of a detention facility in Lynwood, Calif., after serving 32 years of a life sentence for her role in a 1981 killing committed alongside boyfriend Mose Willis, who died while on death row and who Jones maintained forced her to help him rob and shoot two drug dealers, one of whom died.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 03/26/2014

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