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BOGOTA (AP) — Evaristo Porras, a former high-flying Medellin cartel drug trafficker associated with Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, has died at age 62, reportedly in economic ruin.Porras’ death was confirmed by the Gaviria funeral home in Bogota, which said he was buried on Friday. It was first reported Tuesday by the Bogota newspaper El Tiempo. “He died of a heart attack in his Bogota home” on March 3, the paper reported.NATIONALPennsylvania woman charged with recruiting jihadists onlinePHILADELPHIA (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia woman “desperate to do something” to help suffering Muslims has been charged with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill someone, prosecutors said Tuesday.A federal indictment charges that Colleen R. LaRose, who called herself JihadJane online, agreed to kill a Swedish citizen on orders from the unnamed terrorists and traveled to Europe to carry out the killing.NASA: Money essential to adding more space shuttle flightsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — With space shuttle retirement just months away, a senior NASA manager said Tuesday it wouldn’t be hard to add more flights, provided the nation is willing to keep paying $200 million a month.NASA’s three shuttles are scheduled to retire in September, after four more trips to the International Space Station. Some in Congress, however, are pushing for additional missions to fill the gap between the end of the shuttle program and the nation’s next manned spaceship, whatever and whenever that might be.STATE/LOCALSecond ex-New Orleans cop charged in Katrina conspiracyNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A second ex-New Orleans officer has been charged in a conspiracy to cover up a deadly police shooting of unarmed residents after Hurricane Katrina.The shootings on the Danzinger Bridge killed two and wounded four others. The federal charge of misprision of a felony, which means misconduct, was unsealed Tuesday against ex-detective Jeffrey Lehrmann. Lehrmann is now a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Arizona.The police are accused of fabricating witness statements, falsifying reports and planting a gun in an attempt to make it appear as if the shootings were justified.Michael Lohman, a retired lieutenant, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice.Missing executive’s body found in Mississippi River in New OrleansNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A body pulled from the Mississippi River near the French Quarter on Tuesday was that of a missing Texas oil company executive, police said.Police believe Douglas Schantz, 54, president of Houston-based Sequent Energy Management, drowned accidentally, said Bob Young of the New Orleans police department.