Drink-spitting brings jail term
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A Stafford County teenager is paying a stiff price for spitting into a customer's drink at a fast-food restaurant last month. Shaleesheya G. Ford, 18, was ordered to serve six months in jail after pleading guilty to three misdemeanors Thursday in Stafford General District Court. Ford, a high school junior, was also ordered to not work in the food industry for three years and to stay off all Taco Bell properties statewide for the same period. Ford pleaded guilty to assault and battery, obstruction of justice and filing a false police report. She was taken to the Rappahannock Regional Jail...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:52:51 AM
Data shows Columbia was still fighting to maintain control in final seconds
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<p>HOUSTON - New information from 32 seconds of garbled data show that shuttle Columbia's flight control system was still trying to guide the orbiter even after NASA lost contact with the ship, the agency said Saturday.</p><p>NASA has been working feverishly to resurrect information from the data, which Columbia continued to transmit after Mission Control lost contact with the seven-member crew on Feb. 1.</p>
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:52:51 AM
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