• President Barack Obama, who turns 53 in August, is in excellent health, eats a healthful diet, exercises daily and remains tobacco free, according to a two-page memorandum from his doctor released by the White House after an examination last month.

• Charles Wright, 79, a Pulitzer Prize winner who has written 24 collections of poetry, was chosen by the Library of Congress to serve as the nation's next poet laureate beginning this fall.

• George H.W. Bush, the nation's 41st president, celebrated his 90th birthday Thursday by making a tandem parachute jump near his summer home in coastal Maine, fulfilling a goal he made five years ago after a similar jump even though he can no longer use his legs.

• Sherri Lynn Wilkins, a substance-abuse counselor, was sentenced to 55 years to life in prison for hitting a pedestrian, Phillip Moreno, with her car and driving through a Los Angeles suburb with the dying man on her windshield in November 2012.

• Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, signed legislation that will require doctors who perform abortions to have the ability to admit patients to a hospital that is within 30 miles of where the procedure is performed and that provides obstetrical or gynecological services.

• Alison Michelle Ernst, a Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton while the former U.S. secretary of state addressed a convention audience in Las Vegas, was ordered to undergo a competency evaluation.

• Rick Perry, the Republican governor of Texas whose term ends in January, drew on a reference to alcoholism to explain his view of homosexuality while addressing a California audience, saying he "may have the genetic coding that I'm inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way."

• Darkyus Raymond was booked in New Orleans on charges of false imprisonment with a weapon and aggravated burglary, and on an outstanding warrant, accused of holding a woman at gunpoint in her home and demanding sex, though police say the two never had sex because Raymond dozed off.

• Glenn Hermes of Arlington, Texas, is seeking damages from his urologist and a radiologist after he says surgeons mistakenly removed his healthy kidney instead of his cancerous one.

A Section on 06/13/2014