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Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., called on the GOP to “recalibrate the compass of conservatism” in his keynote address at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting in Charlotte, N.C., adding in prepared remarks that the party doesn’t need to change its values but “might need to change just about everything else we do.”

Jason Smith, 36, a Pennsylvania exterminator, has been charged with murder, arson, abuse of a corpse and risking a catastrophe in the slaying of Dr. Melissa Ketunuti, 35, who was found bound and burned in her downtown row home, Philadelphia police said.

Donald Tusk, 55, prime minister of Poland, has been hospitalized with an acute infection of the respiratory tract, his office said.

Michael O. Snider, 70, has been charged in Snellville, Ga., with vehicular homicide and drunken driving over allegations that he caused 15 crashes - five in DeKalb County and 10 more in Gwinnett County - killing one person and critically injuring another, police said.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the outgoing U.S. secretary of state, has reported to the Federal Election Commission that she has cleared her 2008 presidential campaign debts and even had $294,833 left over.

Natasha Robinson, 31, who is accused of trying to hit a department-store employee over a shoplifting allegation and then fleeing the store, leaving behind her two children, has been arrested on charges of aggravated battery, theft of goods and child desertion, Shreveport police said.

Luis Garcia and his wife, Maria, an Irvine, Calif., couple and former members of the Church of Scientology, have sued the church and its affiliates in federal court in Tampa, Fla., accusing them of deceiving members into donating millions of dollars to various Scientology causes and funneling that money back into the church’s coffers.

Derrick Allen, 23, pleaded guilty in a New Orleans court to manslaughter after gunning down a man in a wheelchair during a drive by shooting in October 2010 and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Robert Iger, CEO of Walt Disney Co., said the company’s family films such as Cinderella or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs have more lasting appeal than adult classics such as Casablanca, as he explained to a Beverly Hills, Calif., crowd why the company has focused on franchise films during his tenure.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 01/25/2013

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