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50-ft. wind turbine on Colby-Sawyer campus to be used for student research
NEW LONDON, N.H. (AP) — Colby-Sawyer College has set up a 50-foot wind turbine on campus that will allow students to gather energy data. The turbine is in front of the Susan Colgate Cleveland Library and Learning Center at the New London school. It can generate up to 450 kilowatt-hours per month. College officials tell the Concord Monitor) that’s just small fraction of the up to 4 million kilowatt-hours the school uses on average, but its purpose is more educational. The turbine, which cost about $19,000 and was funded through a grant, has a computerbased monitoring system that allows for gathering data on its effectiveness and under different weather conditions. Jennifer White, the school’s sustainability coordinator, said several professors have expressed interest in applying the data to see WIND page 9
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Military jury convicts Maj. Hasan of Fort Hood massacre FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military jury on Friday convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, making the Army psychiatrist eligible for the death penalty in the shocking assault against American troops by one of their own on home soil. There was never any doubt that Hasan was the gunman. He acknowledged to the jury that he was the one who pulled the trigger on fellow soldiers as they prepared to deploy overseas to Iraq and Afghanistan. And he barely defended himself
during a three-week trial. The unanimous decision on all 13 counts of premeditated murder made Hasan eligible for execution in the sentencing phase that begins Monday. “This is where members (of the jury) decide whether you will live or whether you will die,” said Col. Tara Osborn, the trial judge. Hasan, who said he acted to protect Muslim insurgents abroad from American aggression, did not react to the verdict, looking straight at jurors as they announced
their findings. After the hearing, relatives of the dead and wounded fought back tears. Some smiled and warmly patted each other’s shoulders as they left court. Because Hasan never denied his actions, the court-martial was always less about a conviction than it was about ensuring he received a death sentence. From the beginning, the federal government has sought to execute Hasan, believing that any sentence short of a lethal injection would deprive the military and the families of the dead see FORT HOOD page 4
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. soldier who massacred 16 Afghan civilians last year in one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was sentenced Friday to life in prison with no chance of parole — the most severe sentence possible, but one that left surviving victims and relatives of the dead deeply unsatisfied. “We wanted this murderer to be executed,” said Hajji Mohammad Wazir, who
lost 11 family members in the attack by Staff Sgt. Robert Bales. “We were brought all the way from Afghanistan to see if justice would be served. Not our way — justice was served the American way.” Bales, 40, pleaded guilty in June in a deal to avoid the death penalty for his March 11, 2012, raids near his remote outpost in Kandahar province, when he stalked through mud-walled compounds and shot 22 people — 17 of them women and children. Some
screamed for mercy, while others didn’t even have a chance to get out of bed. The only possible sentences were life in prison without parole, or life with the possibility of release after 20 years. The soldier showed no emotion as the six jurors chose the former after deliberating for less than two hours. His mother, sitting in the front row of the court, bowed her head, rocked in her seat, see SENTENCE page 8
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A giant wildfire raging out of control spread into Yosemite National Park on Friday as authorities urged more evacuations in nearby communities where thousands have already been forced out by flames marching through the timbered slopes of the western Sierra Nevada.
The fire hit the park at the height of summer season, as officials geared up for a busy Labor Day weekend. It has closed some backcountry hiking but was not threatening the Yosemite Valley region, one of California’s most popular tourist destinations.
The spectacular valley carved by glaciers offers visitors such iconic sights as the Half Dome and El Capitan rock formations and Bridalveil and Yosemite falls. The weeklong blaze has spread to more than 165 square miles and was only 2 persee WILDFIRE page 10
Afghan villager not satisfied that U.S. soldier will spend life in prison
Huge California wildfire spreads into Yosemite National Park
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