SHUTTLE LANDS: The space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven returned safely to Earth on Wednesday, making a rare nighttime touchdown at 7:39 p.m. CDT at Cape Canaveral, Fla., to wrap up a 16-day and 6.5-million-mile voyage.
25 YEARS FOR DAD: A Texas jury sentenced Joshua Mauldin Wednesday to 25 years in prison for severely burning his baby daughter by putting her in a microwave and turning it on for up to 20 seconds.
GUN REPORT: A US Airways pilot whose gun fired inside a cockpit said he was trying to stow the weapon as the crew got ready to land, according to a police report obtained Wednesday. The pilot didn’t tell air traffic control about the shooting or say the bullet had punctured the cockpit until after the plane landed safely at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina on Saturday, the report said.
PILOT RESCUED: An 18-year-old student pilot whose plane crashed into a mountainside survived a freezing night in the tail of the wrecked aircraft huddled in emergency blankets. Andrew Scheffer then hiked a mile through waist-deep snow wearing shorts to meet rescuers in Montana on Wednesday.
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