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A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California. Gokhan Mutlu, of Manhattan's Inwood section, says in court papers the pilot told him to "go 'hang out' in the bathroom" about 90 minutes into the San Diego to New York flight because the flight attendant complained that the "jump seat" she was assigned was uncomfortable, the lawsuit said. Mutlu was traveling on a a...

Vietnam War Fighters Suspect Illnesses May Be Linked to Agent OrangeLloyd Patrick Elnicki never asked what the Circle of Life Hospice nurse wrote in her evaluations every day. Secretly, he knew. "I'm dying, aren't I?" he asked his wife, Sharon. "Well, Pat, you're not getting any better," she said. Three years before, the Vietnam veteran was a robust man with pale skin, dark red hair and a goatee. He had a clover tattooed on his back -- for luck...<snip>Both Pat and Sharon Elnicki said they believe Pat's cancers may be linked to Agent Orange, an herbicide the U.S. armed forces...

Defense: China's president announces that the world's most populous nation is preparing to challenge U.S. naval supremacy on the high seas by building a blue-water navy. The dragon sets sail. In comments made last week to Communist Party delegates and published in the People's Liberation Army Daily, Hu Jintao, Chinese president and commander in chief, urged his country to build a "powerful navy that adapts to the needs of our military's historical mission in this new century and at this new stage."

Family rich with history Marirose Morris married the boy next door - but she had to move to Seattle to do it By Ilene Olson rep3@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - Dotted with names like Smoke, Her Many Horses, Lone Wolf, Bear Lays Down, Princess Blue Water and fur trader Joseph Bissonette, Marirose Morris' family tree is not the typical genealogical chart. It is a page seemingly torn from the history of the American frontier. Much of that history, dating back to the early 1800s, centers here in Wyoming, despite the fact that Morris grew up on the...