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Michigan’s Oldest Lighthouse to Open to the Public Saturday

(PORT HURON, Mich.) -- Michigan’s oldest lighthouse is slated to open to the public Saturday after four years and $700,000 in renovations.

The Detroit Free Press reports that the opening of the Ft. Gratiot Light, built in 1829, is expected to draw nearly 1,000 people to the mouth of the St. Clair River.

Tours of the second-oldest lighthouse on the Great Lakes—behind Ohio&rsquo ...Read More

Three Men Charged with Conspiracy to Commit Terrorism, Held on $1.5 Million Bail

Medioimages/Photodisc/ThinkStock(CHICAGO) -- Three men who were arrested in a Bridgeport, Il. apartment raid days before the NATO summit have been charged with conspiring to commit terrorism, providing material support for terrorism and possession of an explosive or indendiary device, The Chicago Tribune reports.

Prosecutors h ...Read More

Obama Pushes Growth, Stability at G-8 Summit

JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Obama suggested that European austerity should be tempered with efforts to stimulate growth, as the eight leaders of the world’s largest economies gathered at Camp David for a summit that was also expected to touch on Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the ongoing bloodshed in Sy ...Read More

Italian Bomb Blast Outside School Leaves One Dead, Five Injured

(NEW YORK) -- A bomb explosion outside a school in the south Italian city of Brinidisi left one girl dead and five injured, the BBC reports.

Students were arriving to school Saturday morning when an explosive device in a waste bin detonated around 7:45 (CEST), city mayor Mimmo Consales told reporters. No one claimed responsibility for the blast, but Consales indicated it was connected to the mafia, s ...Read More

SpaceX Launch Aborted at Last Moment

Comstock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- It was to have been the dawn of a new era, private companies launching into space and on to the International Space Station.

The first such launch was set for before dawn this morning, and it came tantalizingly close.

But the SpaceX rocket never got off the ground.

The launch was ...Read More

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