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• 6. WHERE AUTHORITIES SAY THE LATEST "KNOCKOUT GAME"-STYLE ATTACK HAS HAPPENED
• A white Houston-area man is charged with sucker-punching an elderly black man in Katy, Texas and filming it on video.
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• 7. MORE SNOW, ICE SLOW RESTORATION OF POWER
• After a weekend ice storm turned out the lights from Michigan to Maine and into Canada, many still wonder when they will get their electricity back.
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• 8. WHAT YOU CAN FIND AT THE NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT LOST-AND-FOUND
• The lost-and-found office's supervisor says people often lose false teeth, along with the more common wallets and smartphones, on buses and trains. NYC LOST AND FOUND
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• 9. WHICH INDIAN BRIDAL NECESSITY IS GETTING HIT BY IMPORT TAXES
• Brides in India customarily wear as much gold jewelry as their family can afford, but new taxes mean they're getting less for their money.
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• 10. SPEEDSKATER OVERCOMES EXCRUCIATING CONDITION TO MAKE OLYMPIC TEAM BID
• Rebekah Bradford's pulmonary embolism could have been fatal, but she's now competing at the U.S. team trials in Utah. BRADFORD'S ORDEAL
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AP News in Brief
Most official business of 2013 behind him, Obama sets sights on unfinished tasks for new year

• HONOLULU (AP) -- The last vestiges of 2013's political wrangling officially behind him, President Barack Obama is setting his sights on the coming year, when a number of unfinished tasks will increasingly compete for attention with the 2014 midterm elections.
• Vacationing in Hawaii, Obama on Thursday signed into law a bipartisan budget

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