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Correction: Josh Seehorn, a Georgia man who completed a cross-country walk in Delaware after starting his journey last year in California, walked about 4,800 miles during his 360-day trek. An item below incorrectly reported the distance he traveled.

Thomas Menino, 71, the former mayor of Boston, has been diagnosed with an advanced form of an unknown cancer and told the Boston Globe, “My attitude really is, ‘We’ll get through it.’”

Mason Endres, 18, who suffered a broken leg, fractured neck and broken nose when a suspected drunken driver crashed into a crowd of people at the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, got a private concert in her hospital room by members of one of her favorite bands, Jared & The Mill.

Nathalie and Travis Marg of Los Angeles have loaned their Lamborghini to the Police Department for “charity events and recruitment.”

Nate Phelps, an estranged son of the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas who is said to be in a care facility for an undisclosed illness, said members have voted Fred Phelps out of the church - known for picketing military funerals with anti-gay signs - because of concerns he might harm himself, and that he had “basically stopped eating and drinking.”

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft Corp., said the Common Core State Standards, a set of academic measures that outline what students in the U.S. should know at the end of each grade, are needed to keep the nation competitive, adding that he’s “disappointed that its implementation is at risk in some states.”

Awa Marie Coll Seck, Senegal’s health minister, said the parliament unanimously passed a ban on public smoking and tobacco advertising, with fines of up to $100 for smokers and more than $400,000 for advertisers.

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas gave his support to the re-election bid of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., telling 300 people at a GOP dinner that “the future of America is inextricably intertwined with Kentucky and how these elections come out this time.”

Josh Seehorn, 27, of Athens, Ga., completed a cross-country walk when he reached the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Henlopen State Park in Delaware, 360 days and 6,800 miles after he began his journey in California to raise awareness for North American Envirothon, an environmental education program and competition for high school students.

Jose Salvador Alvarenga, a Salvadoran fisherman who says he drifted at sea for more than a year, met with Roselia Diaz Cueto, the mother of Ezequiel Cordoba, his companion who died during the ordeal, saying he wanted “to be clear on what happened from beginning to end.”

Front Section, Pages 1 on 03/17/2014

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