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Jury deliberating in trial of man charged in fatal MLK Day celebration shooting
Read full article: Jury deliberating in trial of man charged in fatal MLK Day celebration shootingA jury deliberated for several hours Friday before being sent home for the weekend in the trial of a man charged in a fatal Martin Luther King Jr. Day shooting.
SpaceX flying ex-football players, flight controller, Scout
Read full article: SpaceX flying ex-football players, flight controller, ScoutThe three Americans and one Japanese should reach the International Space Station late Monday for a five- to six-month stay, following Sunday's liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. A brief look at each:āCrew commander Mike Hopkins, 51, is an Air Force colonel and former space station resident who grew up on a hog and cattle farm in Missouri. He played football for the University of Illinois and, before becoming an astronaut in 2009, worked at the Pentagon. āShannon Walker, 55, a Houston-born-and-raised physicist, also has lived before on the space station. She worked as a flight controller at NASAās Johnson Space Center and then behind the scenes in the space station program, before becoming an astronaut in 2004.