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Stefan Svanstrom

and his bride, Erika, had a honeymoon to remember after the Stockholm couple and their daughter endured a snowstorm in Germany, a cyclone, flooding and bush fires in Australia, and earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan during their four month vacation.

Alexander Alfaro, 20, one of six people charged in the slayings of three friends in a New Jersey schoolyard in 2007, was found guilty in Newark on 16 of 17 counts that included murder, felony murder, robbery and conspiracy, but was acquitted of attempted murder in the attack on a fourth person.

Pathik “Tik” Root, 21, a U.S. citizen and junior at Vermont’s Middlebury College who spent two weeks in a Syrian jail after he was arrested for pulling out his BlackBerry near a demonstration, said in an interview that he was not beaten in jail, although he heard others being abused.

Leroy Ellzey, 57, has been booked on a charge of aggravated arson after police in Houma, La., say he used a Bible and Styrofoam to set a hotel room on fire because he thought his girlfriend was cheating on him.

James Dodson

and his wife, Chantal, won’t be cited for burying their 10-monthold son at home because they couldn’t afford a burial plot, officials in Colebrookdale Township, Pa., announced.

Stacy Pagli, 38, who admitted strangling her “disrespectful” 18-year-old daughter at Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Bristol Palin, 20, the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, earned more than $262,000 for her role in helping raise awareness for teen-pregnancy prevention in 2009, according to data provided by The Candie’s Foundation, which appointed the younger Palin as a teen ambassador that year, months after she gave birth to her son, Tripp.

Mary Jean Eisenhower, President Dwight Eisenhower’s granddaughter and president and chief executive officer of People to People International, will receive the Harry S. Truman Public Service Award in Missouri next month.

Shawn Daggett, 32, faces charges that include manufacture of a controlled substance, assault on a law enforcement officer and arson after Harvielle, Mo., police say he threw a 2-liter soda bottle that was being used to make methamphetamine at a deputy, causing a fire that burned a trailer.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 04/06/2011

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