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BOSTON (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin Monday in Boston in the trial of a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv). Azamat Tazhayakov (AZ'-maht tuh-ZAY'-uh-kahv) is accused of removing items from Tsarnaev's dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth several days after last year's deadly attack. Tazhayakov faces federal charges of obstruction of justice.
TOKYO (AP) — North Korea says it's about to try two Americans for hostile acts against the country. Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency says Matthew Todd Miller and Jeffrey Edward Fowle entered the country as tourists. The report says their hostile acts were confirmed by evidence and by their testimonies. Miller reportedly entered North Korea April 10 and Fowle on April 29.
CHILHOWIE, Va. (AP) — Officials in southwestern Virginia say a man and 7-year-old girl killed by a train tried to stand off to the side of a railroad bridge but were still hit. The two and an 8-year-old boy were fishing from the bridge Sunday afternoon when the accident occurred. The boy survived by dropping roughly 30 feet to the ground below.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA is launching a satellite on Tuesday to study the main driver of climate change emitted from smokestacks and tailpipes. Some carbon dioxide is sucked up by trees and oceans, and the rest is lofted into the atmosphere, trapping the sun's heat and warming the planet. Five years ago a NASA satellite to track carbon dioxide plunged into the ocean after liftoff.
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — For sale: a town in South Dakota. Businessman Lance Benson is the sole owner of Swett, South Dakota, an unincorporated hamlet in Bennett County about two hours southeast of Rapid City. He's put the town on the market for $400,000 so he can invest more time in his traveling concession business. Benson tells the Rapid City Journal that if he doesn't sell the town in a year, he'll probably hold on to it.
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