Libya Armed Brigade Surrounds Tripoli Airport, Official Says

Jury deliberations start in NY teen's murder trial ROCHESTER, N. Y. (AP) — Jury deliberations are set to resume in the trial of a teenager charged with killing his father and two younger brothers by setting the family's suburban Rochester home on fire in December 2011. Local media outlets report that a Monroe County Court jury deliberated 16-year-old Michael Pilato's murder and arson case for about 10 hours Wednesday before the judge sent them home around 11 p.m.

Section of S. Ind. river has 2nd death in 2 days State conservation officers say William Chappell of Boonville was canoeing with his wife on the Blue River near the Crawford County town of Milltown on Wednesday when they struck a partially submerged log and he became trapped underneath. The North Harrison High School student's body was found about a half mile downstream in the rural area about 30 miles northwest of Louisville.

Kyrgyzstan votes to end US lease of airbase BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Kyrgyzstan has voted to end the United States' lease on an airbase key to supplying military operations in nearby Afghanistan. Lawmakers in the mountainous Central Asian republic voted 91-5 Thursday in favor of ending the agreement in June 2014 to lease the Manas Transit Center.

(AP) — A new fish hatchery that will release nearly 3 million salmon to the wild each year is set to be dedicated Thursday in rural north-central Washington, marking the opening of the first hatchery designed and built under new scientific recommendations intended to boost fish survival rates in the Pacific Northwest. In turn, the hatchery will boost opportunities for salmon harvests for members of the Colville Confederated Tribes, who retain fishing rights in the region but have seen the supply of fish dwindle with construction of the dams, and for sport fishing. There are more than 400 dams in the Columbia River Basin, which stretches south from the river's headwaters in Canada across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, blocking passage for Pacific salmon and other anadromous fish that mature in the ocean and return to their native rivers and streams to spawn. The tribes will operate the hatchery, which was built in partnership with the U.

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