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1. Authorities are trying to find out if overcast¹ skies, rain and gusty² winds played a role in a crash claimed the lives of former Senator Ted³ Stevens and four others. And one rescue worker says fishing waders warmed the surviving passengers, helped act like "a survival-type blanket". Former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe remains⁴ in critical condition.

2. U.S. Marshal for Arizona says an escaped inmate⁵ and his fiancée may be in Arkansas. He says the couple who robbed a store Wednesday morning in Gentry⁶, fits the description of John McCluskey and his fiancée, Casslyn Welch. Welch's mother lives nearby.

3. JetBlue is finally acknowledging its now-famous angry flight attendant. In a company blog posting, the airline poked⁷ fun at the attention directed at the case of Steven Slater. He cursed out a passenger over a plane's loudspeaker and then jumped down the emergency slide.

4. And this archaeological dig appears to have uncovered a home 6,000 years older than Stonehenge. The 11,000-year-old home in northeast Britain could be the oldest in the country.