1 killed, 3 injured in chopper crash in New Mexico

One soldier has died and three others were injured when their helicopter crashed during weekend training exercises from a West Texas post.

Sgt. Dwight Burn died when the CH-47 Chinook he was in crashed Saturday night near Orogrande, New Mexico. Another crew-member and two pilots were injured.

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Nigerian girl describes kidnap, 276 still missing

Femi Falana, a lawyer and human rights activist, centre, leads a mass-demonstration calling on the government to increase efforts to rescue the hundreds of missing kidnapped school girls of a government secondary school Chibok, in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, May 5, 2014.

Leader of a protest march Saratu Angus Ndirpaya of Chibok town, said that Nigeria's First Lady ordered her and another protest leader to be arrested Monday, and expressed doubts there was any kidnapping and accused them of belonging to the Islamic insurgent group blamed for the abductions.

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Charges pending for 4 juveniles connected to pallet fire

Ronald W. Erdrich/Reporter-News A member of the Texas A&M Forest Service shields himself from the intense heat of burning pallets as he crosses to the south side of an Abilene fire late Friday night.

The fire was at a former wood pallet company, behind Abilene Bowling Lanes at 279 Ruidosa Ave.

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