• Rick Perry, 64, the governor of Texas, who faces abuse-of-power charges for following through on a 2013 veto threat, started selling T-shirts featuring his mug shot to raise money for his political action committee.
• Mike Adams, an Alabama Elvis tribute artist, returned a scarf that had once belonged to Elvis Presley to David Whitaker, who got it as a birthday present from Presley at a concert when he was 11 but sold it when he was 16 to help pay for his first car.
• Jamie Warner, a mother in Bridgeton, N.J., is trying to get the City Council to change an ordinance to allow her to raise chickens, which she bought to eat ticks after her sons contracted Lyme disease in their backyard.
• James Arthur Ray, a self-help author who spent nearly two years in prison for negligent homicide after three people died during an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony that he led, is to host several seminars in Arizona about how to deal with personal crises.
• Becky Powell, 40, a Washington woman with five children and three grandchildren, tackled a 20-year-old man who was fleeing from police, then taunted him about being taken down by a grandmother.
• Selene Ortega, a 12-year-old pet owner in Albuquerque, N.M., said her family called their veterinarian, a plumber and finally 911, which dispatched firefighters to help free their poodle, Morita, whose paw had become stuck in the bathtub drain during a bath.
• Ashish Chaulagai, who helped organize a bid to break the record for the largest human national flag, said pictures of an estimated 38,000 people holding colored boards in Katmandu to form Nepal's flag have been sent to Guinness World Records.
• Kelsey James, 22, of Bristol, Conn., is facing charges after police say she left her 2-year-old daughter sleeping overnight in a locked car while she went out drinking, then fell asleep intoxicated in a bar.
• Lauren Blair and her husband, David, the world's most often married couple, according to Guinness World Records, renewed their vows for the 109th time in Gallatin, Tenn., more than 30 years after they first wed.
• Zachary Miller, a police officer in Mills, Wyo., pleaded innocent to an animal-cruelty in the death of a police dog, a black Lab named Nyx, after the dog was reportedly left in Miller's running patrol car, but with the air conditioning off, for six hours in July.
A Section on 08/24/2014