The White House says President Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in light of automatic spending cuts that have led to furloughs for thousands of federal workers.

A White House official says Obama decided to return part of his salary each month for the rest of the year to share in the sacrifice that government employees are making. The official wasn’t authorized to discuss the decision publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The president makes $400,000 per year. A 5 percent pay cut amounts to a little less than 1,700 per month.

The decision is retroactive to the beginning of March. That’s when $85 billion in federal spending cuts kicked in after lawmakers failed to agree on a plan to undo them.

A new study finds that Alzheimer’s is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year.

The study — by the nonprofit RAND Corp., estimates that around 4.1 million Americans suffer from dementia. That’s less than the widely cited 5.2 million estimate from the Alzheimer’s Association, which comes from a study that included people with less severe impairment.

The biggest cost of Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia isn’t drugs or other medical treatments, but the care that’s needed just to get mentally impaired people through daily life.

Dementia’s direct costs, from medicines to nursing homes, are $109 billion a year in 2010 dollars. That compares to $102 billion for heart disease and $77 billion for cancer.

The study was sponsored by the government’s National Institute on Aging and will be published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine.

A Lincoln nursing home says it’s treated a patient room for bedbugs that hitchhiked in on a visitor.

Jennifer Knecht is director of marketing for Tabitha, which offers a variety of at-home, residential and health care services to senior citizens. Knecht said Wednesday that the problem was discovered on Sunday at Tabitha Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.

She says the bedbugs were brought in by a person who was visiting a resident. They were found in only that patient’s room. Knecht says exterminators were brought in to treat that room and three others nearby as a precaution.

The best friend of a New Jersey man who admitted killing a teenager 23 years ago says his friend was overwhelmed by guilt and haunted by nighttime visions of the boy’s mother.

Steven Goff, of Ventnor, turned himself in to police Monday and admitted that he fatally stabbed 15-year-old Frederick Hart in Galloway in 1990. The cause of the boy’s death had been a mystery.

Goff’s best friend, Alan Rickel, says Goff could no longer deal with the guilt.

He says Goff told him after surrendering that he had nightmares in which the slain boy’s mother was staring at him.

Rickel says he got a call from Goff over the weekend. He says Goff told him he was fleeing to Canada but decided to return home and admit having done “something terrible.”

The annual air show at Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha has been canceled because of federal budget cuts.

A written release from the base issued Wednesday says the 2013 Defenders of Freedom Open House and Air Show, scheduled for Aug. 24-25, has been canceled. The show has been held since 1972.

No dates for future Defenders of Freedom shows have been set.

More than a dozen air shows across the country this year have been canceled or had military acts cut from the program because of the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that took effect March 1.

A former New Mexico shoe salesman accused of biting off part of his girlfriend’s toe has been arrested again, this time for allegedly stalking the woman and trying to cut off her big toe with a cigar cutter.

Santa Fe police say the incident Monday was the third attack by 27-year-old Daniel Anaya on his now ex-girlfriend, who has moved to Albuquerque and had obtained a restraining order against him after two previous toe-biting incidents.

Police say Anaya, who used to work as a shoe salesman at a department store, tracked down the woman at her new home and attacked her, but she was able to fight back with a metal fork and escape.

Anaya was arrested that evening after he returned to Santa Fe and sought emergency medical treatment.