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Mike Schalk, a disc jockey at a Memphis club who goes by the name “DJ Mike,” is suing police after he was arrested twice and held for five days because officers mistook him for an announcer at a nearby bar who has the same stage name and has been accused of selling Ecstasy to an informant.

Anne Hidalgo, 54, was elected mayor of Paris, making her the French capital’s first female leader, and said in a victory speech, “I am the first woman mayor of Paris; I am aware of the challenge.”

Darius Simmons, 23, was charged with carrying a concealed firearm and aggravated battery after police said he got into an argument with a guest at Panama City Beach’s Edgewater Beach Resort in Florida, pulled a handgun from his pants and struck the guest in the head,causing the weapon to discharge at least one round.

Mikhail K hodorkovsky, a former oil tycoon who left Russia in December after he was released from prison and pardoned of tax evasion and fraud charges by President Vladimir Putin, has received a one-year residence permit from Switzerland.

Javier Espinosa and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, Spanish journalists who were freed after being held hostage for more than six months in Syria by a militant group, returned to Madrid and were reunited with friends and family.

Jorge Gonzalez, an El Paso, Texas, police officer, is being investigated after police said he rode his motorcycle through a group of bicyclists at an event focused on improving conditions for cyclists and pedestrians, injuring several people.

Riek Machar, former vice president of South Sudan, said his rebel allies plan to capture key oil installations to force President Salva Kiir to step down and end more than three months of conflict, which has killed thousands of people and forced at least 860,000 more to flee their homes.

Brian Leary, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said a man was arrested and faces charges after he climbed over a fence at the White House, causing a brief lockdown.

Miranda Barbour, 19, who along with husband Elytte Barbour has been charged with killing 42-yearold Troy LaFerrara, whom they purportedly lured through Craigslist, told The Daily Item newspaper in Sunbury, Pa., that two other men had responded to her ad for companionship but never met with her, adding that their failure to show up saved their lives.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 03/31/2014

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