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Pilot dead after crashing near Brookley (MOBILE, Ala.) April 25 - Broad Street between Michigan Avenue and 15th Street is still closed following a Thursday night plane crash that resulted in the pilot's death Friday morning. Mitchell says it appears that the plane landed 300 to 500 yards short of the runway on the 1900 block of Broad Street and burst into flames. He said a passerby saw the crash and rushed to the scene, pulling the pilot from the wreckage. No one else was hurt in the crash. A spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta said the...

Hostage situation going on in Miami. Carjacker takes woman hostage in mail truck. Tune into Fox News Channel.

27 ex-cons worked at DSHS Staffers worked with vulnerable children, adults A background check of state employees who care for vulnerable children and adults revealed 27 people with felony convictions for assault, rape, incest and other crimes. The Department of Social and Health Services reports that 20 of the employees voluntarily quit when their criminal records were discovered. The remaining seven were transferred to non-caregiving jobs, the Seattle Times reported Saturday. ''I'm relieved we went through the process we needed to,'' said Ken Harden, DSHS assistant secretary. ''Our job here is to protect the citizens of this state. We can't...

I was listening to NBC Nightly News this evening and Andrea Mitchell has a piece on the possible sources of the Anthrax. She says, since the "grade" or whatever of this stuff can't be pinned down to a foreign country, that one possible source was a "Midwestern right-wing group" - Not even an EXTREME right wing group! - now its just a "right wing group" which to me means just about any conservative group.