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Michel Temer, the 77-year-old Brazilian president, is recovering after undergoing a successful angioplasty to open up three coronary arteries, all of which were 90 percent obstructed, according to the Sao Paulo hospital that treated him.

Bethany Martin, who teaches kindergarten in Tulsa, has supplied each student at her elementary school, all of whom come from low-income families, with a pair of shoes and has raised nearly $16,000 to do the same for students at other north Tulsa schools.

Denise McClellan said her 52-year-old husband, Roy McClellan, was killed by a hit-and-run driver while hitchhiking in southern Nevada, about seven weeks after surviving the mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas.

Victoria Tumolo of New Jersey will receive a complimentary second wedding reception from the companies she hired to cater and entertain at her nuptials, saying she suffered an allergic reaction at the reception and was taken away in an ambulance after her father administered an EpiPen through her wedding dress.

Cindy Mayer of Mayer Maple Products told the Burlington Free Press that vandals used an ax to chop holes in eight barrels of maple syrup, causing about 300 gallons, nearly a season's worth, to leak out onto the company's sugar house floor.

Kelly Merchant, 50, a former Victoria's Secret store manager in Bangor, Maine, filed a lawsuit against the lingerie company, saying she was unjustly fired because she didn't fit the company's image because of her weight and age, though the company said she was fired for theft.

Jessica Jey told CBS in Philadelphia that she had planned to pay full price for a box of toys set aside for her children at the Toys R Us in Cherry Hill, N.J., but was told that she was one of 62 people whose layaway orders, which totaled $10,780, had been covered by a Good Samaritan.

Sierra Willson of Safety Harbor, Fla., fatally stabbed her pit bull, Buster, after it attacked two other dogs then turned on Willson's mother and sister, injuring them, the Pinellas County sheriff's office said.

Carol Younglove, a Claremore, Okla., postal worker of 12 years, told the Claremore Daily Progress that she hopes the post office will receive at least 100 letters to Santa Claus this year, vowing to "make the time" to respond to every single one of them -- as Santa -- before Christmas.

A Section on 11/26/2017

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