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Dmitry Kozak, Russia’s deputy prime minister, said the Cossack who was filmed horsewhipping members of a punk group performing an anti-government song in Sochi has been “held accountable” for the attack, but he would not say what action was taken.

Lucy Hamer of Medina, Ohio, was surprised by sanitation workers who spotted an unopened purple envelope in the trash and, upon discovering it contained a birthday card and a $50 bill, drove it to her home.

Donnie Lee Griffin, 30, of Tampa, Fla., who escaped from a federal prison in Texas, was captured in Denver after trying to get away from authorities by climbing out the 20th-story window of an apartment building, passing through a unit on the 19th floor to get back inside and then going down a trash chute, where he got stuck.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 76, Algeria’s president, who hasn’t publicly addressed the country for nearly three years and suffered a stroke last year, will be running for a fourth term in April, said his prime minister, who added, “I can assure you he is in possession of all his mental and intellectual faculties.”

Judy Cox, a mother upset about T-shirts in the window of a PacSun store at a Utah mall that featured pictures of scantily dressed models decided to get them off display for a while by spending $567 to buy all 19 T-shirts in stock, which she plans to return for a refund toward the end of the store’s 60-day return period.

The Rev. Philip Briganti, 67, of El Paso, Texas, was charged with engaging in unwanted sexual contact with a man while on a bus trip to a hotel after the reception for a wedding he officiated.

Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe who has ruled the nation for 33 years, marked his 90th birthday by saying he is “fit as a fiddle” and that he isn’t ready for retirement.

Zavier Stephan Morgan Pestana, a baby boy who was born prematurely in the back of an ambulance, was named in honor of Steven Choi and Glen Morgan, the Southern California paramedics who saved his life.

Tommy Lee Sparta, a Jamaican dance hall disc jockey, and four others were charged in a multimillion-dollar scam in which swindlers targeted mostly elderly Americans, informing them they had won millions in an international lottery but that they first needed to send money to cover taxes.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 02/23/2014

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