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Johnny Rodrigues, the head of a conservationists’ alliance in Zimbabwe, said his group is investigating the legality of a hunting trip in the country by U.S. magnate Donald Trump’s sons after photos showed up online of Donald Jr. and Eric posing with dead game animals.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., owes more than $1 million from her unsuccessful bid to become the Republican presidential nominee, according to a federal campaign report.

Mike Bowen, a Honolulu hiker who encountered problems including rain, winds and a lost tent while out on the Koolau Summit Trail with his small dog, Marley, said he drank sweat and rainwater wrung from his clothes during seven days in the mountains before a helicopter flew to hisaid.

David Healy, the superintendent of a New Jersey school district, said there’s no policy against hugging in the district and that the matter of middle-schoolers being told by their principal not to hug one another was being blown out of proportion.

Gary Herbert, the Republican governor of Utah, signed a bill that demands the federal government relinquish control of public lands in his state by 2014, setting the table for a potential legal battle over millions of acres in Utah.

Paul LePage, the Republican governor of Maine, was within his rights when he ordered the removal of a mural depicting the history of the labor movement from a state office building, a federal judge ruled, a year after the mural was put into storage at an undisclosed location.

Mike Stone, an 18-yearold Minnesota high school senior who has been told by school officials he cannot take two porn actresses to his prom, says he’ll hold an alternative party at the same time as the prom so he can take his dates, who had responded to Twitter messages Stone sent to Hollywood celebrities, mostly porn actresses.

Reuben Lack, an 18-year-old senior at a suburban Atlanta high school, says in a federal lawsuit that administrators removed him as student body president after he promoted changes aimed at making the prom more inclusive to homosexual students.

Thomas Browne

of North Mankato, Minn., and his son Lee Browne and daughter Elaine Pleiss have claimed a Hot Lotto jackpot in Minnesota worth nearly $3 million.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 03/24/2012

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