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NASA announced in October it was retiring its last KC-135 aircraft; the plane’s specialty was making extremely steep dives to create a zero-gravity environment for research and astronaut training. An official told reporters that over the years the plane’s crews had cleaned up at least 285 gallons of passengers’ vomit.
Cameron Miller, 19, of Alexandria, Louisiana, was arrested Christmas Day on four counts of attempted murder; he allegedly fired a shotgun at a pickup truck carrying his mother, stepfather, and stepbrothers because he’d wanted cash for Christmas but got only CDs. And the day after Christmas in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, 21-year-old Steven Murray allegedly burned down his parents’ house because they didn’t get him any presents.
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