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Previously unseen video footage has been helping scientists learn more about the fate of the airship. One of the 20th Century's most infamous disasters, the destruction of the Hindenburg - a large German passenger airship - occurred following its arrival at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey in May 1937. The huge hydrogen-filled airship was carrying 97 passengers at the time, of which 37 lost their lives when the vessel inexplicably burst into flames and crashed to the ground, bringing with it any remaining confidence in airship travel in general. Although it is obvious that the gas...

A Superior Court judge in Ocean County yesterday rejected three motions made by the attorney for accused killer Michael LaSane, who sought to have his 10-year-old case returned to juvenile court, get three charges dismissed and have his trial moved to another county. Two months before LaSane is scheduled to stand trial in the 1996 suffocation death of teacher Kathleen Stanfield Weinstein, Judge James Citta began sorting through issues that until now had been avoided because of LaSane's original plea bargain in the case. LaSane's newest attorney, picking up from where the last of a string of lawyers had left...