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COLLEGE STATION — An Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed Monday in a field on the campus of Texas A&M University, killing one person and injuring four others aboard.

The Army UH-60 helicopter crashed Monday afternoon during training exercises near the Corps of Cadets field on the school's College Station campus, about 100 miles northwest of Houston. No one on the ground and no students were hurt.

A crew of four from the Army National Guard and an Army lieutenant assigned to the school's ROTC unit were the only ones aboard the Black Hawk, Texas A&M spokesman Lane Stephenson said.

Sheila Rinard with College Station Medical Center said two of the crash victims were in critical condition and a third was in stable condition. Another crash victim was at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan, a spokesman said. That person's condition wasn't immediately known.

TOPEKA — The Department of Homeland Security has approved a site at Kansas State University for a $450 million lab to study livestock diseases and some of the world's most dangerous biological threats.

The agency's final record of decision — a document obtained by The Associated Press — confirmed a decision announced in December to build the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility at the Manhattan, Kan., campus to replace an aging lab at Plum Island, N.Y.

DHS spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said the document hasn't been publicly released and declined to comment further about the decision. But the state's two senators issued statements confirming that DHS Undersecretary Jay Cohen had signed it.

Sites in Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas were also considered for the new lab, where animal diseases and other potential bioterrorism threats will be researched.

The federal agency said factors in its decision included the proximity of the site to Kansas State's research labs and its colleges of agriculture and veterinary medicine.

NEW YORK — The owner of the Rainbow Room restaurant and nightclub has halted its eviction from Rockefeller Center — for now.

Cipriani Fifth Avenue LLC got a restraining order Monday to stop the eviction until a hearing later this month in Manhattan's state Supreme Court.

Landlord Tishman Speyer Properties gave Cipriani until Monday to vacate the 64th and 65th floors of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

A Tishman Speyer spokeswoman said Cipriani has failed to pay rent for the Rainbow Room since 2008, so its lease must end.

Cipriani said he isn't leaving. It calls the eviction notice a "frivolous" attempt to convert the Rainbow Room's venue into expensive office space.

NEW YORK — Retired Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard, a paratroop officer who suggested the famously defiant answer "Nuts!" to a German demand for surrender during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge, has died. He was 93.

Kinnard, a career soldier who in later years was the principal architect of the Army's concept of using helicopters in infantry warfare in Vietnam, died in Arlington, Va., on Jan. 5, his family told The New York Times.

A native of Dallas, Kinnard graduated from West Point in 1939 and spent 30 years in uniform, retiring in 1969.

He parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, with the newly organized 101st Airborne Division and was decorated for heroism during its drive against German forces in the Netherlands.

In the 1960s, Kinnard, a trained aviator, was a key developer of the Army's helicopter "air assault" concept at Fort Benning, Ga., and first applied it in combat in Vietnam as commander of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile).

COLUMBUS — Sen. George Voinovich said Monday he won't seek re-election in 2010, becoming the fourth Republican to make departure plans since the Democratic landslide in November.

The 72-year-old Voinovich said challenges facing Ohio and the country will require him to devote all his energy to serving out his current term. Campaigning and fundraising would take time away from his work, he said.

Voinovich's decision was more bad news for Republicans. Democrats, who are just shy of a filibuster-proof margin in the Senate, will be on the offensive in the races for four open seats.

In recent weeks, Republican Sens. Kit Bond of Missouri, Mel Martinez of Florida and Sam Brownback of Kansas have all announced plans to retire in 2010.

ATLANTA — Not even a former president is immune from thieves.

Two bicycles belonging to former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, were snatched from inside the Carter Center near downtown Atlanta earlier this month.

The Carters like to ride bicycles in nearby Freedom Park when they have free time. Peter Wicker, the owner of a local bike shop, donated the bicycles to the Carters in 2007 after seeing the poor condition of their old bikes, which had been brought in for repairs.

Atlanta police say they have made no arrests.

TRENTON — E-mails between New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and his labor leader ex-girlfriend can remain private, an appeals court ruled Monday.

A three-judge appeals panel reversed a lower court ruling requiring the e-mails be made public.

"The release of confidential e-mails may have a chilling effect on the governor's ability or willingness to solicit advice, or to accept unsolicited advice in the future," the appeals court wrote.

Corzine and his former girlfriend, Carla Katz, have been fighting to keep the e-mail exchanges private since Republican State Committee Chairman Tom Wilson and several news organizations, including The Associated Press, requested the correspondence.

Wilson called on the Democratic governor to make good on his promise of government transparency by releasing the e-mails. If he doesn't, Wilson said he would appeal Monday's decision to the state Supreme Court.

Corzine's office would not say whether he plans to release the e-mails.

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans City Council has agreed on several amendments to the city's 2009 budget that will keep enhanced cleaning services in the French Quarter through October.

Mayor Ray Nagin warned last week that extra pressure washing and street sweeping for the tourist-rich area would have to be cut because the city had more pressing needs, including new police and emergency vehicles.

The compromise, approved Monday, also will give the administration $2 million to buy police cars and other emergency response vehicles that the council earlier had cut from the budget.