In brief: Kelly arrives at launch site

Cape Canaveral, Fla. – The astronaut husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords arrived at NASA’s launch site Tuesday for this week’s flight of space shuttle Endeavour, and said his wife would be following him “pretty soon” – in plenty of time for liftoff.

Endeavour is set to blast off Friday afternoon on its final voyage. It will be the next-to-last space shuttle mission.

Navy Capt. Mark Kelly and his crew flew into Kennedy Space Center early Tuesday afternoon. The countdown began about an hour later.

Kelly was joined Tuesday by his identical twin, astronaut Scott Kelly. Both wore turquoise “Gabby” wristbands.

President Barack Obama and his family also will attend the liftoff.

Suspect arrested in mall bomb case

Boulder, Colo. – A man suspected of leaving a homemade bomb at a Colorado shopping mall was captured Tuesday without a fight outside of a grocery store after he was spotted having coffee.

Federal and local officials allege 65-year-old Earl Albert Moore planted a pipe bomb and propane tanks in the Southwest Plaza Mall in the south Denver suburbs last week. The explosives were found April 20 after a fire in a hallway at the mall’s food court, but they didn’t detonate.

The discovery came on the 12th anniversary of the Columbine shootings and the mall is just two miles away from the high school where teenage gunmen killed 12 students and a teacher in 1999.

Authorities looked at the possibility of a connection between the two events but say they’ve concluded there was no tie. FBI agents have said they have found a motive, but they refused to reveal it Tuesday.

Police arrested Moore after a shopper spotted him having a cup of coffee in a Starbucks inside a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder. Authorities said he was unarmed.