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SEATTLE — A 61-year-old former University of Washington support staff member set himself ablaze Thursday in the midst of a crowded campus plaza. He died a short time later.

The man, whom authorities did not immediately identify, died shortly after he was brought to Harborview Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg-Hanson said.

"We do not know why he did it," said UW Assistant Police Chief Ralph Robinson, adding the man suffered second- and third-degree burns. "That's a big mystery."

CAPE CANAVERAL — With a visit to the Hubble Space Telescope off until next spring at the earliest, NASA on Thursday chose Nov. 14 for its next space shuttle launch, a flight by Endeavour to the international space station.

The Hubble repair mission had been planned for this month but was postponed until next year because of problems with the orbiting telescope.

During the 15-day flight, the astronauts also will conduct four spacewalks to clean and repair a solar wing rotating joint that has been jammed for a year and hindered energy production. And another astronaut will take up residence at the space station, replacing Gregory Chamitoff, who has been on board since June.

PENSACOLA — A spokesman for the U.S. Navy Blue Angels says the stunt-flying team will be down one jet the rest of its season after two members were removed from duty for having an inappropriate relationship.

Capt. Tyson Dunkelberger, a spokesman for the team based at Naval Air Station Pensacola, said Thursday the squadron will finish its last three air shows next month with five jets.

Dunkelberger would not identify the two members but said the relationship was between a man and a woman.

DALLAS — A prominent Democratic fundraiser linked to the John Edwards mistress scandal has died of cancer in Texas.

A spokeswoman for Fred Baron's law firm says he died Thursday afternoon. He had obtained an experimental drug this month in hopes of treating his multiple myeloma. But the drug was not approved for his disease.

Baron made headlines over the summer when he acknowledged sending money to Edwards' mistress. Baron was national finance chairman for Edwards' presidential campaign.

He has said the North Carolina politician had no involvement with the payments. They were used to resettle Edwards' mistress in California.

Baron was 61.

RACINE — A Maltese dog named Max is headed home to Florida after he was spotted in Chicago — 1,000 miles from where he vanished.

Richard Gonzalez reported a pet theft after Max disappeared several months ago from Brandon, Fla.

The pooch was identified in Chicago by an implanted microchip. Gonzalez contacted the Northcentral Maltese Rescue to retrieve Max, who will be flown Saturday to Florida.

WHITE PLAINS — A white man from suburban New York who burned a cross on a black family's lawn has been sentenced to six months in jail and 1,000 hours of community service.

Twenty-one-year-old Christopher Hudak had pleaded guilty to criminal mischief as a hate crime and was sentenced Thursday. He admitted that he lit the 4-foot cross in November after a fight in school between his sister and a 15-year-old boy from the black family.

Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore called the use of a burning cross to terrorize an African-American family an attack on the entire community.

Hudak's accomplice was sentenced to four weekends in jail and 300 hours of service.

MADERA — Searchers have found what appear to be two large human bones near the crash site of Steve Fossett's plane in California's Sierra Nevada, along with the adventurer's tennis shoes and driver's license, authorities said Thursday.

Madera County Sheriff John Anderson said at a news conference that the bones were found Wednesday about a half-mile east of the crash site. Investigators have sent them to a Department of Justice testing lab and should know in about a week whether they are Fossett's.

Anderson said searchers also found Fossett's tennis shoes, his Illinois driver's license and credit cards. The shoes and driver's license had animal bite marks on them.

"This reinforces our theory that animals dragged him away," Anderson said.

BIG BEAR — Sheriff's deputies arrested five teenagers on felony conspiracy charges for allegedly plotting to bring guns to school to attack staff members and fellow students.

San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Tiffany Swanek said Thursday that it appears the plot to attack Big Bear High School wasn't serious.

She says the teens were arrested Wednesday after schoolmates reported overhearing them making suspicious statements.

Swanek says deputies found drug pipes and cash in the teens' homes, as well as gang-related writings and photos.

The teenagers' names were not released.

Big Bear is about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles.