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E-mails spur NASA drama
NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak's bizarre 1,450km road trip to confront a romantic rival may have been sparked by steamy e-mails sent to her boyfriend by the other woman, documents released on Monday by the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office in Florida showed. Nowak collected e-mails sent to space shuttle pilot Bill Oefelein. Police have said Nowak raced 1,450km in her car from Houston to Orlando on Feb. 5 to confront Shipman. Nowak donned a wig and trench coat, then sprayed a chemical into the woman's car when Shipman wouldn't let Nowak in, police said. Nowak was charged with attempted kidnapping and burglary with assault.
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Abducted baby found
Authorities say an illegal Mexican immigrant was bullied into giving up her newborn son by a former roommate who threatened to turn her in to immigration officials. The 20-year-old woman was reunited with her baby on Sunday. Police arrested Artemia Hernandez, 44, on suspicion of child abduction. In May, Hernandez intimidated the mother into handing over her son, police said. Police said Hernandez persuaded the woman to list Hernandez as the baby's mother on his Los Angeles County birth certificate. Working off an anonymous tip, El Monte, California, police detectives located the baby and delivered him to his mother on Sunday.
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Warrants issued for attack
San Francisco police issued arrest warrants for two men accused of a New Year's Eve attack on members of an all-male a capella group from Yale University. Richard Aicardi and Brian Dwyer were charged on Monday with assaulting two members of the Baker's Dozen outside a party held in honor of the 16 student singers. Witnesses at the time said the trouble started after the vocalists sang The Star Spangled Banner. Evan Gogel, one of the two most seriously injured chorus members, suffered a concussion when Aicardi, Dwyer and others repeatedly kicked him while he was on the ground, police said.
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Place crash may be suicide
A pilot and his eight-year-old daughter were killed when their small plane crashed into his former mother-in-law's house in Indiana, authorities said. A preliminary crash investigation leads "us to believe that this was an intentional act," Indiana State Police spokesman 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said. Monday's crash in Bedford killed Eric Johnson, 47, of Bedford, and his daughter Emily, Bursten said. Emily did not go to school on Monday, and Johnson's ex-wife, Beth Johnson, had gone to the police about 11:30am to say she believed he might have abducted the girl, Bursten said.
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