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Pilot gets two years for stealing plane

Canadian student suffered from depression, hoped to be shot down crossing border

By Heather Ratcliffe - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A Canadian student pilot who stole a plane in hopes he would get shot down when he crossed the U.S. border was sentenced Tuesday in St. Louis federal court to two years in prison.

Republicans boycott climate meeting

GOP senators protest chairwoman's refusal to order new analysis of legislation

By Alexander C. Hart - Tribune Washington Bureau

German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Congress Tuesday to take dramatic action to stop climate change, but the political difficulties were evident as Republicans boycotted a Senate committee meeting to consider changes to a climate change bill.

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