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repeatedly to repeal the measure.
• "We are caught right now in a culture, and you see it every single day, where as long as we're negative and as long as we're vicious and as long as we can tear down our opponent, we don't have to learn anything. And so we don't," Gingrich said. "This is a very deep problem."
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UPS plane crash rattles residents near Ala. airport who worried about low-flying aircraft
• BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Residents in a hilly neighborhood near Birmingham's airport worried about the possibility of a plane crashing into their homes for years before a UPS cargo jet nearly did just that.
• The A300 jet headed from Louisville, Ky., to Birmingham, Ala., landed in a field near the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport around daybreak Wednesday, killing the two pilots on board and scattering wreckage over a wide area. The aircraft rained pieces of metal into front yards and sheared off a piece of one family's back deck.
• The crash happened in a grassy field where a neighborhood stood until several years ago, when airport officials began buying up and then razing the houses to clear the area near the end of the runway.
• But such offers, which began in 1986, weren't made on some of the nearby houses, including that of Cornelius and Barbara Benson, who live in a two-story, split-foyer home just a short walk from the crash site.
• "Hopefully we can get out of here now," said Cornelius Benson.
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Pfc. Bradley Manning takes stand at sentencing hearing, apologizes for hurting US with leaks
• FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- Pfc. Bradley Manning took the stand Wednesday at his sentencing hearing in the WikiLeaks case and apologized for hurting his country, pleading with a military judge for a chance to go to college and become a productive citizen.
• He addressed the court on a day of often emotional testimony from family members about his troubled childhood and from a psychologist who said Manning felt extreme mental pressure in the "hyper-masculine" military because of his gender-identity disorder -- his feeling that he was a woman trapped in a man's body.
• "I am sorry that my actions hurt people. I'm sorry that they hurt the United (Continued on page 27)
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