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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a potential 2016 presidential hopeful, has legal troubles on the home front. He's been indicted by a grand jury in Austin for allegedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption. Perry's defense attorney, whose $450-per hour fees are being paid for by state funds, calls the indictment "political abuse of the court system."
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) - Missouri Rep. William Lacy Clay is accusing authorities in Ferguson of attempting to taint the investigation into the fatal police shooting of an unarmed teen. Police released a video Friday that appears to show 18-year-old Michael Brown stealing a box of cigars from a store. He was shot moments later by an officer, but Chief Thomas Jackson says the officer wasn't aware there had been a report about the cigar theft.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military aircraft have been in action in northern Iraq. Defense officials say drones have destroyed two armed vehicles south of the Iraqi town of Sinjar. Officials say remotely piloted aircraft identified and then followed an armed vehicle to a roadside area and later struck and destroyed two vehicles in the area.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two people have been arrested in northern New York for allegedly kidnapping two Amish sisters from their family's roadside farm stand. A prosecutor in St. Lawrence County says Stephen Howells II and Nicole Vaisey were each charged with two counts of first-degree kidnapping. The girls were abducted Wednesday and turned up about 24 hours later about 15 miles from their home in Oswegatchie (ahs-wee-GAH'-chee).
BOSTON (AP) — Some airport officials say the government should place further restrictions on electronic cigarettes on planes. The director of the Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates Boston's Logan International Airport, says one of the devices, packed in a passenger's checked luggage, burned a small hole in the bag. It was extinguished it before the plane took off.
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