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Little Rock, Ark. (AP) -- The National Transportation Safety Board says it will stand by a report blaming pilot error for a 1999 plane crash and likely will ignore a jury's decision to fault the airport. Jurors on Thursday awarded the widow of Capt. Richard Buschmann more than $2.1 million after her lawyers argued that conditions at the airport — not Buschmann's mistakes during an attempt to land in a severe thunderstorm — were the main cause of his death. Ten others also were killed. The NTSB said its conclusions were reached by aviation experts, as opposed to 11 random...

In a decision that exposed one of the raw nerves of the criminal justice system, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled yesterday that a juror who cannot put aside personal feelings of racial identification with a defendant must be dismissed. Emphatically declaring that race has no place in the jury room, the high court ruled a trial judge was correct in dismissing a juror who said that, as a black woman with children of her own, she could not "see another young black man going to jail for something really stupid." As a result, Leardee Jenkins, 20, of Franklin...