-- Nacogdoches (nahk-uh-DOH'-chiz) County Sheriff Thomas Kerss says the area "cannot muster enough manpower" to guard the hundreds of wreckage sites reported so far. He says it could take "some time" to find all the debris in remote areas.
-- Another East Texas sheriff says federal officials have assured him the area's water supply is safe from contamination by shuttle debris. Sheriff Tommy Maddox of Sabine (suh-BEEN') County says people had been worried about the water coming from a lake in the area.
-- Some shuttle parts are being held in an airport hangar in Nacogdoches, Texas. The airport's manager says the debris in the hangar includes some type of big container tank that came to rest on a runway.
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-- Remains that a hospital employee identified as charred torso, thigh bone and skull were found on a rural road near other unspecified debris in Hemphill, east of Nacogdoches.
-- Remains identified as a charred human leg were found on a farm in Sabine County, about 50 miles east of Nacogdoches.
-- An intact, charred helmet and astronaut's patch were found in San Augustine County.
-- A rounded piece of what appeared to be metal, about 4 by 5 feet in size, was found on a rural highway in Neches.
-- A foot-long metal bracket smashed through roof of a dentist's office in Nacogdoches.
-- A half-moon-shaped metal piece, about 5 feet long, was found in the front yard in Nacogdoches, described as jagged with severe burn marks.
-- V-shaped chunk of metal in the median of U.S. 79 just northeast of Palestine, in Anderson County. More unspecified debris found at nearby Pert.
-- 2-foot square pieces of metal, small pieces of tile in Cherokee County, just west of Nacogdoches, and in Rusk County, just to the north.
-- Unspecified debris falling near Jacksonville, Palestine, Rusk and Athens.
-- A brick-size piece of debris in the back yard of a home off FM 23 near Rusk. Other pieces in a nearby hay field.
-- 5- by 5-inch item that appeared to be a charred piece of tile in front of Rice High School in Rice, in Navarro County.
-- Unspecified debris several inches in diameter in Henderson County, including footlong piece on land being developed by family of former Texas Gov. Bill Clements.
-- Tank, about 3 feet in diameter, on a runway at the A.L. Mangham Jr. Regional Airport in Nacogdoches.
-- Steel rod with silver bolts in a Nacogdoches yard.
-- 3- by 3-foot piece of metal in a bank parking lot in Nacogdoches.
-- 1-foot diameter piece of gray metal in front of the courthouse in Nacogdoches.
-- 9- by 2-inch piece of metal in a yard, ash on a car in Nacogdoches.
-- Chunk of unspecified debris with stenciled letters and numbers on it in Kerens near Highway 309 in Navarro County.
-- Curved piece of metal, about 5 feet in diameter, in the median of state Highway 55 in Anderson County, west of Nacogdoches.
-- Small piece of unspecified debris in a grassy area along State Road 155 near Palestine in Anderson County.
-- Five pieces that look like tile in the Neches First Baptist Church parking lot. Another piece that appears to be insulation on the roof.
-- 7- to 8-foot door-like fragment and a piece of debris resembling part of a windshield found in Cherokee County.
-- Small piece of black tile, about 6 inches by 6 inches, on a roof in Waxahachie, south of Dallas.
-- A metal object resembling an exercise ball in the front yard of a home in Bronson, southeast of Nacogdoches near the Louisiana line. The object is dented and has bolts and nodules coming out of it.
-- 3-foot-by-3-foot cylindrical object at National Guard Armory No. 2 in Nacogdoches.
Louisiana:
-- Smoldering bundle of wires in a front yard in Shreveport.
-- Compact-car sized piece reported splashing into Toledo Bend Reservoir on Texas-Louisiana state line.
-- Debris in Ouachita Parish thought by authorities "to be possibly a parachute."
-- Four unspecified pieces of wreckage fell west of Leesville in Vernon Parish.
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