• Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the 2012 Republican vice presidential candidate, said in a TV interview that he and his family will "take very seriously and weigh" the decision of whether to run for president in 2016.
• Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, has been moved to a remote Peruvian penitentiary after authorities said he threatened to kill the warden of the prison where he was serving a 28-year term for murder.
• Chris Koster, the attorney general for Missouri, announced two workshops aimed at boosting the number of law enforcement officers who are members of minority groups, after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, by a white police officer drew attention to the issue.
• Athena Skeeter, 40, a New York child care worker facing a manslaughter charge in the death of a toddler at her home, reportedly told police that after wrestling with the boy, she threw him to the floor and stepped on him three times.
• Jan Harding, 67, a Utah woman who nearly died after unknowingly drinking iced tea mixed with chemicals at a restaurant, was released from a Salt Lake City hospital.
• Garrett Adams, 23, of Lancaster, Calif., was arrested on suspicion of killing his brother's friend with a bow and arrow after the friend tried to break up an argument between Adams and his girlfriend, police said.
• Gen. William Shelton, an Oklahoma native, retired as commander of the U.S. Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., after 38 years of service.
• Abdou Labo, the agriculture minister of Niger, was arrested over his purported involvement in a Nigerian baby-trafficking scandal.
• Bruce Koloshi, 55, of Summit, N.J., pleaded guilty to cheating at poker at the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut by marking cards with ink that he believed only he could see with special contact lenses he was wearing but that showed up on surveillance video when it was played in black and white.
• Sgt. Allen Shelling, a member of the Savannah Police Department, joined lawmen from across west Tennessee to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser, the inspiration for the Walking Tall movies who was shot and stabbed multiple times as he tried to rid the county of organized crime.
A Section on 08/25/2014