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WASHINGTON (AP) — Human rights advocates call it progress, but say the U.S.'s latest policy on land mines should go further. After two decades of waffling, the U.S. has announced its intention to join an international treaty banning land mines. But there's no time table and there may be possible complications on the Korean Peninsula. Rights groups say the U.S. should just do it and begin destroying its stockpile.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A published report cites human error and technical malfunction for a drone crash that hit a Navy ship off the coast of California, injuring two sailors and causing $30 million in damage to the warship. U-T San Diego reports that the redacted Navy document it obtained recommends administrative action against the warship's then-skipper and three crew members.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA hopes the weather cooperates for today's "flying saucer" test. NASA is testing technology that could be used to land on Mars. The attempt off the Hawaiian Islands will test the disc-shaped vehicle and a giant parachute. With heavier Mars craft in the works, the space agency needs a much stronger parachute.
DOVER, N.H. (AP) — A jury in New Hampshire has believed the testimony of the defendant's girlfriend and convicted Seth Mazzaglia of first- and second-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott in October 2012. After first trying to shield Mazzaglia, Kathryn McDonough testified that he choked then raped Marriott after she twice rejected his sexual advances.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Insanity is still on hold in Kansas City, Missouri. With nearly half of its season already in the books, a water park in Kansas has been forced to delay the opening of the world's tallest water slide for the third time and hasn't set a new date for its debut. The slide is called Verruckt, German for insane. Park officials say they would rather be embarrassed than put people on the 17-story, 168-foot-tall water slide when it's not ready. Rafts in early tests flew off the slide.
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