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1 student dies in shootings at party

EAST ORANGE, N.J.

A man who was denied access to a private party at an apartment near Seton Hall University left and returned with a handgun, fatally shooting a university student and wounding four people, sending screaming party-goers rushing out the door and climbing out windows.

Seton Hall student Jessica Moore, 19, died from her injuries at 3:20 p.m. Saturday, said Katherine Carter, a spokeswoman for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Moore had been hospitalized in critical condition after the shooting just before 12:20 a.m.

The other four victims were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, and one has since been released, said East Orange Police Sgt. Andrew Di Elmo.

1st rescue capsule arrives at mine

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile

The first of three rescue capsules specially built to lift out 33 miners trapped since early August arrived at the mine Saturday.

Two back-up rescue devices constructed at Chile’s naval shipyard are expected to be delivered next week.

The man-size capsule will be used to pull the miners out one by one once one of the three rescue holes being drilled reaches the men. The government says that should happen by early November or earlier if all goes well.

Lehman art auction nets $12.3 million

NEW YORK

Lehman Brothers may have blundered its way to disaster on Wall Street, but at least the bank’s art curators knew what they were doing.

An auction of contemporary artworks held by the failed investment firm and its former subsidiary, Neuberger Berman, brought in nearly $12.3 million Saturday, according to Sotheby’s.

The auction house said many of the works sold for far more than what Lehman and Neuberger paid. Profits will help pay the bank’s many creditors.

Bomb scare probed

STOCKHOLM

Canadian police are investigating whether a phoned-in hoax caused a Pakistani jet to be diverted to Stockholm for several hours Saturday for fear that one of its passengers was carrying explosives.

Police evacuated 273 people from the jet, and briefly detained a Canadian man, after an anonymous caller in Canada tipped-off authorities that the suspect was carrying explosives.

However, no explosives were found on the man, who was released after questioning by police, or on the Boeing 777 from Pakistan International Airlines, which had been bound from Toronto to Karachi, Pakistan.

Space capsule lands

ALMATY, Kazakhstan

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts who lived six months on the International Space Station touched down safely, but one day late, Saturday morning in the cloudy, central steppes of Kazakhstan.

The homecoming of American astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson and Russia’s Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko had been delayed after technical glitches hindered the undocking of the spacecraft.

Robot aids people with dementia

TOKYO

Scientists in Japan have developed a robot that can aid people with mild dementia by giving verbal reminders about things such as appointments and taking medicine.

The robot was developed by the National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, the University of Tokyo and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, officials said Friday. They plan to have it ready for use in five years.

Combined dispatches