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 NY Gov. Paterson: Son wasn’t gambling in dice game 
 Escaped zoo hippo still roaming free PLAVNICA, Montenegro — A 2-ton hippo who escaped from a flooded private zoo in Montenegro was roaming free Wednesday but returning to the zoo owner’s restaurant to eat bread and hay. 
 Pandas attempt to mate at National Zoo WASHINGTON — Two pandas at the National Zoo attempted to mate before zoo officials determined they had not been successful and artificially inseminated the female, Mei Xiang. 
 Randall, Kornfield win cross-country sprint titles 
 DC zoo plans goodbye party for panda Tai Shan 
 Vermont bill could require hunters to wear orange 
 White House gate-crashers on list for Vegas party 
 Oaklawn Park revamped with electronic gambling 
 Chilean zoo celebrates birth of 5 white tigers 
 Ryanair to keep flying domestically in Italy 
 Atlantic City casino revives $2 blackjack tables 
 Harbin ice festival a feast of fancy, lights 
 Randall wins women’s 10K freestyle in Anchorage 
 Norwegian teen tops chess world ranking OSLO — Norway’s Magnus Carlsen has become the youngest person ever to top the world ranking in chess. 
 Battleship Missouri set to leave drydock this week 
 Kovalev scores 4 in Senators’ 7-4 win over Flyers 
 2010 Spoleto embraces renovated SC theater 
 One of world’s oldest giraffes dies at Ala. zoo 
 Alfa Romeo wins Sydney to Hobart yacht race 
 Pakistani Christians fearful this Christmas 
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