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Noteworthy

By TIMES WIRES
Published August 11, 2006

NOTEWORTHY

'Atlantis' crew is a go for practice

The six-member crew of Atlantis was strapped in, and the countdown got all the way down to T-minus four seconds ... and holding. It was just practice for the space shuttle's real launch in two weeks. Commander Brent Jett described the schedule on the 11-day mission as the most aggressive in the shuttle program's 25-year history as NASA tries to get back into the routine. Atlantis is delivering a 35,000-pound, 45-foot-long addition that includes two solar array to the international space station.

The 'in health' part will just have to wait

To Jared Darr, shattering your leg in a car accident on your way to the wedding is not a sign that you shouldn't get married. In fact, it barely delayed the ceremony, although it did move it from a church to the hospital. Darr and his betrothed, Amanda McCadden, were out picking up an archway for the reception when they crashed with another car near Spokane, Wash. So he was sent to the hospital, and she went with him. Then the rest of the wedding party followed. And before you know it, with the groom slightly pale and on painkillers, they exchanged vows. The reception went on as scheduled, but the honeymoon is on hold.

DUMB ROBBERS

Hey, gas is expensive

When sticking up a convenience store, one of the most important items on the things-to-do list beforehand is to gas up the getaway car. David K. Booth, 44, of Royal Oak, Mich., appears to have skipped that step. He fit the description of a man who robbed a 7-Eleven, and he was sitting in his pickup truck, with an amount of money strikingly similar to what was stolen, about a mile from the store when police found him.

Which machine?

The plan was flawless. Break into the bank, tie a rope to the cash machine, attach the rope to two vehicles, and drive off. All the three would-be thieves in northern Malaysia had to make sure they got right was to tie up the right machine. Well, whoops. They tied up a check deposit machine instead of the cash dispensing machine, only to find that there is almost no reason to steal a check deposit machine. After the alert security guard heard the machine crash to the ground, he chased the robbers off.

'QUOTE'

"I don't think what you did rises to criminal conduct. Stupid, maybe. Immature. But not criminal."

Pittsburgh Judge David Cashman, in acquitting five men on charges surrounding an incident where one of the men's bully son was beaten during a trip to a juvenile detention center that was intended to scare him.

UPDATE

Conjoined twins

Kendra and Maliyah Herrin remained in critical but stable condition Thursday at a Salt Lake City hospital, where the formerly conjoined twins are recovering from separation surgery. The 4-year-old girls from North Salt Lake were separated this week in a 26-hour surgery.

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