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On Wednesday, a federal grand jury indicted liberal activist and Florida postal worker Douglas Hughes on a total of six felony and misdemeanor charges in relation to his April 15 landing of gyropcopter on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol that, if convicted, could result in up to a nine-and-half-year prison sentence.
When it came to the major broadcast networks covering this story on their Wednesday night newscasts, the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley and NBC Nightly News neglected to devote even a second to this story.