Four gang members potentially face life in prison without parole after being convicted Friday of using violence and intimidation to extort "rents" from drug dealers and suppliers on their Los Angeles turf, a federal prosecutor's office said.
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Jenny Sanford says her husband's political career is "not a concern of mine."
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Okay, withdrawal time. A dramatic, transformative Tour de France has been decided by one of the narrowest margins in the 105-year history of the race. Cycling fans who've been following the Tour for the last three weeks must now grapple with a void in their lives, a Bobke-less universe.
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I'm glad to see that my match-ups for this weekend's Colts-Pats game got posted in time for rapid e-mailers to get a crack at them. The layout of the match-ups always poses a problem for the technicians in the office, a problem of "formatting," as they say. Actually I don't say it because I don't like to use a noun as a verb. Quite exciting actually. One of the computers blew and lots of little names were flung off the screen, onto the floor, where they were seen scurrying toward freedom. Andrew came through, though, and caught them all in his butterfly net.
A rally Wednesday afternoon at Columbia University was held to protest the discovery of a noose on the office door of an African-American professor.
Here are some facts from tonight's broadcast that you might find interesting. • U.S. Military Aid to Mexico 2007: $59 million • U.S. Military Aid to Columbia 2007: $585 million Sources: Center for International Policy: Facts Center for International Policy: "Below the Radar"
Columbia University fired its financial aid director Tuesday after finding that he had promoted a student loan company in which he had an ownership stake, the university said.
Question: My wife and I want to buy. Should we wait to see if prices fall, or take advantage of today's low mortgage rates? - Heath Hewett, Columbia, S.C.
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NASA has scrubbed the May launch of the space shuttle Discovery to replace four low-level sensors in the external fuel tank -- a process that will take three weeks, space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale announced Tuesday.
NASA officials are hoping that the launch of the shuttle Discovery can take place in May, but still-vexing problems with foam breaking away during launch have not been resolved.
Under mandate to keep space shuttles grounded until its issues with foam insulation are resolved, NASA discovered nine small cracks in the foam coating on an external tank that had been slated for use by space shuttle Discovery, the agency said Tuesday.
NASA managers said Friday that the space agency is working to resume shuttle flights as soon as next May, even as teams of engineers continue to analyze what caused a potentially critical problem during the Discovery's launch.
The space shuttle Discovery took off again on Friday on the first leg of its flight back to Florida.
Use this explainer to help students understand the history of the space shuttle program, a topic relevant to current news.
The space shuttle Discovery undocked from the international space station early Saturday, the first step in its journey back to Earth.
Discovery astronauts prepared to leave the international space station Friday as they began to wrap up work in advance of next week's return to Earth.
NASA has grounded its space shuttles until engineers solve the recurring problem of falling debris, NASA's mission managers said Wednesday.
Discovery roared into orbit Tuesday in NASA's first shuttle flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster, and afterward engineers began evaluating pictures of falling debris to determine the chances of another mishap.
NASA said Sunday that the countdown for the first space shuttle launch since the Columbia disaster in 2003 is on track for Tuesday morning.
NASA officials decided Wednesday to go ahead with the launch of the space shuttle Discovery Tuesday morning, even though they have still not definitively found what caused a fuel sensor malfunction that forced the mission to be scrubbed last week.
The first space shuttle launch since the 2003 Columbia disaster will not take place until late this week at the earliest, NASA spokesman Mike Rein said Friday.
Spectators crowded the bank of the Banana River anticipating the first space shuttle launch in 2 1/2 years.
Thousands of space junkies from all over the nation are here to witness the launch of the shuttle Discovery.
A faulty fuel sensor aboard the space shuttle Discovery on Wednesday forced NASA to delay its launch until at least Saturday.
The launch of the space shuttle Discovery will go ahead as scheduled Wednesday after technicians replaced two protective tiles damaged near the spacecraft's tail Tuesday, a NASA spokeswoman said.
As NASA prepares to return to manned space flight, Columbia widower Jon Clark also has been thinking more about the future and less about the past.
The space shuttle Discovery returned America to space two years after the Challenger explosion in 1986.
They are parents, as well as sons and daughters; triathletes, nature-lovers and rock 'n' rollers; pilots, scholars and engineers; seasoned space explorers and first-timers.
When Discovery thunders off the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one question will be on everyone's mind: Is it safe?
Discovery's mission can be described in one word: safety.
NASA administrator Michael Griffin announced Thursday afternoon the space shuttle's return to flight in July.
A panel chartered to oversee NASA's return-to-flight program said Monday the agency failed to fully meet three of the 15 return-to-flight recommendations laid out after the Columbia accident.
NASA is a step closer to a July launch of space shuttle Discovery on the agency's maiden return-to-flight mission -- the first since Columbia broke up upon re-entry in 2003, shuttle program managers said Friday.
Five weeks before the scheduled launch of the Discovery, the panel charged with certifying that NASA's efforts to ensure the space shuttle would be ready said the agency still has work to do, and cited concerns over ice possibly endangering the craft.
It is rare that outsiders catch a glimpse of the private lives of astronauts, especially those who gave their lives in the pursuit of space exploration.
NASA announced Wednesday it had moved the launch date for the space shuttle Discovery to May 22, a week later than previously scheduled.
Since the loss of Columbia in 2003, thousands of people have spent the past two years working to make the space shuttle a safer vehicle.
Thousands of people have spent the past two years working to make the space shuttle into a safer vehicle since the loss of the Columbia in 2003.
While NASA's space shuttle Discovery prepares to rollout to its launch pad, a team of engineers are working through a mountain of safety waivers to ensure the orbiter is safe for flight.
Managers of the space shuttle Discovery said Tuesday they are leaving the door open for a slide in the scheduled May 15 "return to flight" launch, though NASA continues to work toward that date in the wake of the 2003 Columbia disaster.
Discovery commander Eileen Collins says the next shuttle mission will set a new standard for safety.
As the nation remembers the space shuttle Columbia disaster Tuesday, the independent blue ribbon panel overseeing NASA's return to space shuttle flight says the agency is on track for a launch, perhaps as early as May or June.
NASA is on track to make the improvements needed to meet its goal of returning the space shuttle fleet to service as soon as May 2005, according to an independent task force set up to oversee the space agency's efforts.
As NASA readies the space shuttle fleet to fly again, the agency's risk management teams are also paying attention to risk issues that affect the International Space Station.
Three astronauts aboard a Soyuz spaceship have begun a hypersonic pursuit of the International Space Station.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the New York Attorney General are expected to bring civil fraud charges against the Columbia Management unit of FleetBoston Financial Corp. (FBF) as soon as today, alleging that the firm allowed improper trading of several of its mutual funds, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.
When the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated above Texas one year ago Sunday, NASA was quickly confronted with more than the deaths of seven astronauts.
Eighteen years ago Wednesday the Challenger shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members, and NASA announced it was designating the Mars rover Opportunity's landing site Challenger Memorial Station in honor of the astronauts.
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