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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 26, 2008 — Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew landed at 8:39 p.m. EDT Wednesday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., after completing a 16-day journey of nearly 6.6 million miles in space. The first landing attempt at Kennedy was bypassed due to low clouds in the area.
Endeavour’s flight was the [...]

Railfanning.org News Wire
NEWARK, N.J. — Trains along Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor came to a standstill because of electrical problems, authorities said.
“It was done as a precautionary measure. None of the trains lost power,” The Associated Press quoted Amtrak Spokesman Cliff Cole as saying.
The voltage in the overhead wires dropped from 12,000 volts to 9,000 volts, though [...]

Rainfanning.org News Wire
CANTON, Mass. — About 150 people were injured when a lumber car crashed into a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter train Tuesday afternoon, March 25, authorities said.
“All the lights went out and people were flying down the aisles and people were on the floor of the car,” one passenger told The Boston Herald [...]

By Sara Moore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 24, 2008 – The U.S. troop surge in Iraq and increased community involvement have helped improve coalition detention operations there, the U.S. commander in charge of those operations said yesterday.
Since the troop surge, the coalition has seen positive trends in the capture and release rates among Iraqi detainees, [...]

WASHINGTON — A former education consultant from California was sentenced to serve 7.5 years in prison for rigging bids and defrauding the E-Rate program, the Department of Justice announced.
Judy N. Green, of Temecula, Calif., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in San Francisco after a jury found her guilty on 22 counts of fraud, [...]

By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 19, 2008 – President Bush reflected on the triumphs and tragedies of the Iraq war today, five years after the U.S. ousted Saddam Hussein and roughly one year after a troop surge helped to tamp down violence there.
In the midst of what he referred to as an [...]

Special to HarpBlaster.com
ATLANTA, March 18, 2008 – A Georgia state representative pleaded guilty today to a federal money laundering charge and will resign from his post.
State Rep. Ron Sailor, D-Decatur, pleaded guilty to a felony criminal information charging him with laundering and attempting to launder what he believed to be drug proceeds, after taking possession [...]

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HOMER, Ga. — A former district attorney in Northeast Georgia was sentenced to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a payroll scheme that bilked taxpayers out of nearly $40,000.
Tim Madison pleaded guilty to two felony theft charges, one felony count of violation of oath of office, four felony counts of false statements [...]

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 11, 2008 — Space shuttle Endeavour brought an early sunrise to the East Coast Tuesday, launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 2:28 a.m. EDT and beginning the STS-123 mission to the International Space Station.
During the 16-day flight, Endeavour’s seven astronauts will work with the three-member space station crew and ground [...]