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Experts attending a week-long meeting of the National Transportation Safety Board in Baltimore did their best to convince conspiracy theorists that last July's crash of TWA Flight 800 was due to mechanical failure. NTSB officials released thousands of pages of documents, screened several computer animations, and gave frightening new details of the last seconds of the doomed plane. In Paducah, Ky., a much younger investigation also failed to produce evidence of a conspiracy. Although the local sheriff said he believed others knew in advance about the attack, 14-year-old Michael Carneal is now considered the only suspect in the prayer-meeting shooting that killed three high-schoolers. Because he used a firearm to commit a serious felony, Mr. Carneal will be tried as an adult, but Kentucky law forbids the death penalty for anyone under the age of 16.

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