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The Northwest Pilots who overshot a Minnesota runway by 150 miles last week told investigators they were using their personal laptops in the cockpit, a violation of company policy, according to a National Transportation Safety Board advisory.
The two pilots, interviewed separately on Sunday, told investigators they lost track of time when they used their laptops
The pilots told NTSB officials that they had not been monitoring the airplane or calls from Air Traffic Control at that time


A National Guard recruiter from Cape May County admitted to defrauding an incentive program of more than $8,000.

Gregory Fletcher, 32, of Lower Township pleaded guilty Monday to third degree theft by deception.

Officials say Fletcher created accounts and submitted false information, providing his own bank account for the direct deposit of the monetary incentives.

The Guard Recruiting Assistance Program provides part-time soldiers with cash incentives as a way to recruit new soldiers.


A Jordanian man accused of trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper with what he thought was a car bomb pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Monday.
Authorities arrested Hosam Smadi on Sept. 24 after he allegedly parked a truck in a garage beneath the 60-story Fountain Place office building in downtown Dallas. Once he was at a safe distance, Smadi dialed a cell phone he thought would ignite a bomb in the vehicle — but the device was actually a decoy provided by FBI agents posing as al-Qaida operatives, according to the FBI.


Arizona State University police say a graduate student fatally shot himself in a professor's office.
Police say the student was apparently talking with a professor when he pulled out a gun and shot himself once in the architecture Design South Building on ASU's main campus in Tempe.