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Rick Perry, the Republican governor of Texas, was booked in Austin on two felony counts of abuse of power regarding his carrying out a threat to veto funding for state public-corruption prosecutors, a case he has dismissed as a political ploy.

Herman "Hy" Goldman, who turned 101 last weekend and still drives to work, shows up four days a week at the New Jersey lighting-fixture company that's employed him since 1941.

Georgia Gorringe, 86, a great-great-grandmother in Utah, became a first-time novelist by writing a steamy romance novel, No Good-Bye, about a bored housewife who listens to talk radio and is turned on by the voice of a man she hears.

Charlotte Ponce, 12, a Michigan girl whose face was mauled by a pet raccoon when she was a baby, celebrated the completion of two years' worth of reconstructive surgical procedures that repaired her upper lip, rebuilt her nose and gave her a new right ear.

Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand's military ruler who is expected to be named the new prime minister later this week, addressed the junta-appointed legislature in a businesslike, dark-blue suit with a sky-blue tie, rather than his usual military uniform.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka told foreign journalists that he will not accept any investigation by the United Nations into allegations of abuses by his soldiers and the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels in the final period of the country's civil war in 2009.

Al Gerhart, 56, a Tea Party leader in Oklahoma convicted of sending a threatening email to a state lawmaker, was sentenced to pay a $1,000 fine in accordance with the recommendations of the jury.

Linda Maddox, 63, shot and critically wounded her 7-year-old grandson Tyler with a .22-caliber revolver she keeps by the bed after mistaking him for an intruder who had broken into her home, the Hillsborough County, Fla., sheriff's office said.

Shannon Mixer, 34, faces child-neglect charges in central Florida after leaving her 1-year-old daughter in the car while she shopped in grocery and liquor stores, officials said.

Bobby Burt, 19, of Pittsfield, Maine, who served a 48-hour sentence for drunken driving, appears in his jail booking photo wearing an orange T-shirt featuring his mug shot from his June arrest, along with the words, "Sponsored by Bud Light and Somerset County Sheriff."

A Section on 08/20/2014

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