Space shuttle Discovery carries new pump and big Japanese lab
NASA pressed ahead with the Discovery launch to the ISS delivering a new toilet pump and the Kibo lab. The $1 billion module, 37 feet long and over 32,000 pounds, will occupy the shuttle's entire payload bay, transforming the station into a larger living and research space.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
NASA
Discovery
International Space Station
Space Station
Kibo
Fatal shooting in Hazard leaves two county workers dead
In Hazard Kentucky a county official magistrate Jimmy Darrell Neace and road worker Lewallen Caudill were shot and killed in a Grapevine parking lot by Jerry Fugate, a county employee on leave. Fugate then killed himself, authorities said. Sheriff Les Burgett noted no motive yet.
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Hazard
Kentucky
Jimmy Darrell Neace
Jerry Fugate
Lewallen Caudill
Fugate
Rowdy
Perry County
Les Burgett
Ben
Grapevine
Lexington
U S Leaders Eye Shift as Cluster Bomb Pact Hits Wall
Negotiators in Dublin say the landmark treaty banning cluster bombs will likely end U S use of the weapons and requires stockpile destruction within eight years. The agreement, endorsed by 111 nations, allows limited cooperation with non signatories and cites a proposed U S backed security clause.
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Dublin
Ireland
United States
America
NATO
U.S
Russia
China
Israel
India
Pakistan
Steve Goose
Human Rights Watch
NYC crane collapse kills 2 workers on Upper East Side
A 200-foot Kodiak crane snapped during construction, fell into a Manhattan apartment building, killing two workers. Investigators will study a failed weld and bolt issues as city officials suspend crane operations and review safety amid a boom in construction with about 250 active cranes.
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New York
Manhattan
Upper East Side
Scott Bair
Robert LiMandri
LiMandri
Michael Bloomberg
Buildings Department
Indiana boy wins 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee
Sameer Mishra, 13, from West Lafayette Indiana, wins the 81st Scripps Bee spelling guerdon to beat Sidharth Chand of Bloomfield Hills Michigan in a tense final. Mishra, a fourth-time contestant known for humor, remains calm and focused while claiming the trophy.
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Washington
Sameer Mishra
West Lafayette
Ind
Guerdon
Sameer
Sidharth Chand
Bloomfield Hills
Mich
Custody delays loom in FLDS children case in Texas
In San Angelo Texas a judge requires all 38 mothers involved to sign a custody agreement before reunifications can proceed delaying returns of more than 400 children from the Yearning For Zion Ranch. Attorneys note the constraint could push starts of returns past Monday and complicates reclassification efforts.
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San Angelo
Texas
Barbara Walther
Texas Supreme Court
Andrea
Sloan
FLDS
Walther
Texas Child Protective Services
High Court
Zion Ranch
Foster
Supreme Court
Appeals Court
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Ill
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IDOT
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Quazaiyeh
Lebanon
Nyc
Tony Avella
Jessica Lappin
Indiana Boy
Willie Jessop
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Tom Green County
West Texas
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