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'Diaper' Astronaut Gets Light Sentence

Nowak pleads to lesser charges, gets year of probation

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 10, 2009 4:15 PM CST

(Newser) – Ex-astronaut Lisa Nowak will serve a year of probation for the bizarre attack on a romantic rival in 2007. Nowak pleaded guilty to lesser charges of misdemeanor battery and burglary of an automobile. She drove 1,000 miles from Houston to Orlando, famously telling police... Read full story »

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