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Neil McArdle, 36, was sentenced to a year in jail in Britain for calling in a bomb threat to Liverpool’s St. George’s Hall rather than admit he had neglected to book the venue for his wedding with fiancee Amy Williams, who is still in a relationship with McArdle.

Eni Faleomavaega, 70, American Samoa’s nonvoting delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, was evacuated to an Army hospital in Honolulu for an unspecified condition that officials said was not life-threatening.

Don Dwyer, 55, a Republican state lawmaker in Maryland, was sentenced to 60 days in jail - on weekends if he chooses - for drunkenly operating a boat in a river crash that injured seven and, almost exactly a year later, driving a car while impaired.

Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian satirist often compared to U.S. comedian Jon Stewart, returned to the air for the first time since the July ouster of President Mohammad Morsi, mocking the country’s pro-military fervor and Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in an episode of The Program that immediately drew complaints from politicians and others.

Quentin Simmons, a 30-year-old Georgia man, pleaded guilty and faces 35 years in prison for killing a man and wounding three others outside a Washington motel after the men insulted his girlfriend.

Elliott Echols, 23, has been hired to serve as the Republican Party’s first national youth director and will spearhead efforts to win over voters younger than 30.

Manuel Aguirre Galindo, a suspected former top operator for the Arellano Felix drug gang who was named in a 2003 U.S. indictment, was arrested in Mexico and faces drug-trafficking and criminal-conspiracy charges.

Howard Leventhal, an Illinois man who persuaded a company to provide almost $1 million in financing for the “McCoy Home Health Tablet,” a telemedicine computer tablet named after the physician in the Star Trek TV show and movies, was arrested on fraud charges because, U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said, “his scheme was pure science fiction.”

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas lauded as “historic” a plan to create a Texas A&M University campus in Israel during what the Republican said was a trip to “open discussions” with businesses that might be considering global expansion.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 10/27/2013

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