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tiate his release. • • 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. • • 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. • • 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 • • 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. • • 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 • •
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 (Continued on page 17)
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