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NASA called up its backup landing site in California, Edwards Air Force Base, just in case.

Endeavour has enough supplies to stay up until Tuesday.

One final task was accomplished late Saturday afternoon: the ejection of a miniature research satellite from Endeavour's payload bay. The satellite -- dubbed Picosat and measuring 10 inches long and five inches high and wide -- is meant to test new solar cell technology for the Defense Department.

8-Year-Old Is Offered Plea Deal

PHOENIX -- Prosecutors have offered a plea deal to an 8-year-old boy charged with murder in the shooting deaths of his father and another man in their Arizona home. Complete details of the offer were not spelled out in a court filing posted Saturday on the Apache County Superior Court's Web site. But Apache County Attorney Criss Candelaria wrote that he "tendered a plea offer to the juvenile's attorneys that would resolve all the charges in the juvenile court contingent on the results of the mental health evaluations."

Homeless Man's Chair Enshrined

NEW YORK -- One customer's favorite purple velvet chair at a Starbucks in a New York suburb has become a memorial. Employees at the store in Nyack say the chair was favored by Fleming Taylor, a homeless man who was nevertheless a paying customer. The store's assistant manager, Mark Horwitz, said people would give the cafe's gift cards to Taylor. Store employees and acquaintances say Taylor's body was found Wednesday under the stairwell where he lived. Now that purple velvet chair has been cordoned off with black ribbons, and bouquets have been placed on the seat in Taylor's honor.

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