Eugene Crum Dead: Mingo County Sheriff Fatally Shot Near West Virginia Courthouse (UPDATE)

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Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum was fatally shot Wednesday outside the Mingo County courthouse, WCHS reports.

The courthouse, located in Williamson, W. Va., has been evacuated, WSAZ reports.

WCHS reports that a suspect has been taken into custody.

The suspect was shot but is “alert and talking,” and has been taken to the hospital, according to the Charleston Daily Mail. He was shot while attempting to flee the crime scene, West Virginia State Police said, according to WSAZ.

Crum was eating lunch when a suspect drove by and fired at him, a county commissioner said, according to the Charleston Daily Mail. West Virginia House Delegate Justin Marcum said Crum enjoyed having his lunch in a place where he could see a former “pill mill” that was raided in 2010, the paper reported.

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Reported meteor lights up East Coast — and social media

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The streaking ball of fire Friday night above the East Coast did not, for now at least, signal the end to civilization as we know it.Though you might get that sense from social media.

The sky lit up along the U.S. eastern seaboard with reports of “a thin streak of blue-greenish-white” from people like Chip Guy, who was driving in eastern Maryland when he and his family he spotted it.

“It didn’t last more than eight or nine seconds, then it disappeared,” said Guy, a spokesman for Sussex County, Delaware. “Frankly, I didn’t think too much of it.”

But his tune changed once he posted something about the presumed meteor on a local social media web page, which triggered a quick and hearty response.

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Northern Lights PHOTOS 2013: AuroraMax Observatory Captures Dazzling Auroras

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Travelers from around the world come to the far North to witness the northern lights in person. But if that’s too much trouble, the Canadian Space Agency’s AuroraMax observatory brings the aurora borealis right to your browser.

The observatory’s “all-sky imager” provides a 180-degree view of the night sky over Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories. Conditions permitting, nightly aurora displays are live-streamed on the agency’s website.

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Bo Jiang, Former NASA Contractor, Arrested By FBI On Plane To China

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A Chinese national who worked at NASA’s Langley Research Center has been arrested on a plane bound for Beijing on charges of lying to federal agents.

Bo Jiang made his initial appearance Monday in Norfolk federal court. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Jiang had an attorney.

U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf says Jiang wasn’t employed by NASA, but worked at the Hampton, Va. facility for the National Institute of Aerospace.

An affidavit says Jiang was under investigation for possible violations of the Arms Control Export Act.

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She’s Alive… Beautiful… Finite… Hurting… Worth Dying for…..

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Not what you may think….beautiful scenes. ..

 This is so beautiful and moving, it will inspire you in many ways.
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Unusual Ways to Rid Your Home of Spring Bugs

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As we head into March, it’s time to say goodbye to winter and hello to spring. Unfortunately, however, the change of season brings more than just warmer weather and the beautiful flowers.  The spring season also brings with it the arrival of spring bugs. Whether it be garden slugs or honey bees, spring insects have one thing in common: they’re unwelcome! But before you call in the professionals, take a look at our list of ways to get rid of these pests and enjoy the season without having to share your home with these creepy critters.

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What killed Neanderthals? Scientists blame those rascally rabbits

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Neanderthals were big-game hunters who feasted on mammoth and rhino but didn’t or couldn’t eat smaller, leaner meat. Their picky diet — or limited hunting skills — could have made them vulnerable when mammal populations shrank and their favorite dinner became harder to find.

A broad survey of animal remains recorded at early human and Neanderthal sites across Spain, Portugal and France gives us new insight as to what humans and Neanderthals ate. One trend stuck out to scientists who assembled the data: Rabbit remains became much more popular at human sites just about the time that Neanderthals disappeared, about 30,000 years ago.

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2nd Most Expensive Home Sale in U.S.? Silicon Valley Mansion Reportedly Snags $117.5 Million

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Our eyes nearly popped out of our heads when we saw the reported sale price of this Woodside, Calif., mega-mansion: $117.5 million! If it’s true, it would be the second most expensive home sale ever in the United States. (Billionaire Stanley Kroenke holds the No. 1 spot for his $132.5 million purchase of a Montana ranch last November.)

Bay Area blog SF Luxe came across the shocking discovery, pointing to public records on listings site Redfin showing the astronomical sale price of the 8,930-square-foot home in the middle of Silicon Valley.

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‘Directed Evolution’ Pioneer Frances Arnold Opens Up About Sustainable Biofuels (VIDEO)

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“Directed evolution” may save our polluted planet. At least, chemical engineer Dr. Frances Arnold sees it that way.

The recent National Medal of Technology and Innovation recipient is credited with pioneering the technique of directed evolution, a method used to engineer proteins or evolve certain organisms, leading to the revolutionary production of renewable fuels and chemicals, among other results.

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Naomi Klein: Addicted To Risk

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Looking at photos from the November spill, so eerily similar to the photos from BP’s April 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s clear we are still looking for energy in risky places, and largely unprepared to deal with the consequences of failure. One year after the BP spill (which workers soaked up, in large part, with straw bales), the X Prize Foundation announced winners of a million-dollar incentive to develop new tools to clean up oil spills: And many others are looking at this problem too, including one of TED’s Senior Fellows, Cesar Harada. Harada is an inventor — of a staggering number of kinds of things. One of them is the Open_Sailing project, a group of inventors and scientists building open-source hardware and software to explore and study the ocean.

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