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June 28, 2007
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Young pilot close to finishing record solo flight around globe
HN PORRETTO
HOUSTON (AP) - Two
stops before completing a jour
ney that would make him the
youngest person to fly solo
around the Earth, Barrington
Irving glided into Houston on
Saturday with a message for the
roughly 50 swdents who
cheered his arrival.
“I think this shows it doesnt
matter where you come from,
what you have or what you
dont have,” Irving said after
climbing out of his single
engine Columbia 400.
The 23-year-old aerospace
student, who built his plane
from more than $300,000 in
donated parts, took off from
Violence unrelated to Juneteenth
celebration, organizer says |
MILWAUKEE (AP) -
Violence that caused
police in riot gear to
respond to the city’s
Juneteenth festival was
unrelated to the day of
celebration and its activ
ities, the event’s presi
dent said.
Police = dispersed the
crowd at Tuesday’s cele
bration after a man was
pulled from a car and
beaten and an officer was
injured trying to break
up a fight.
A group leaving the
arca after the festival
ended about 6 p.m.
attacked at least two
cars, including the vehi
cle and driver who was
beaten, police spokes
woman Anne E.
Schwartz said.
The man, 33, sustained
facial cuts and a broken
tooth in the attack,
police said.
Tiger's Baby - For Tiger as a father,
biggest issue might be privacy
%DOUG FERGUSON
Golf Writer
OAKMONT;, Pa. (AP) -
Perhaps the most famous
ghoto of Jack Nicklaus as a
ther came from the 1973
PGA Championship.
He had just completed a 68
in the second round at Can
terbury when 4-year-old Gary,
the fourth of his five children,
ran onto the green and into
his arms. NlCkilUf wcz;llked off
the 18th green clutching his
son with %rr: hand a::s his
putter with the other.
Two days later, he won the
PGA to break the record for
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Wofdsmdlcamc a father
Monday morning in Orlan
Florida on March 23 in his bid
to become the youngest person
and first black pilot o fly solo
around the globe.
After one more stop, in
Alabama, Irving plans to return
to Opa-locka Executive Airport
outside Miami on Wednesday
to complete his journey.
From Florida, he flew 1o
Cleveland and New York
before continuing into Canada,
then flying across the Adantic
to Europe, the Middle East and
Asia. From Asia, he flew w©
Juneau, Alaska, then Seartle
and Denver before arriving in
Houston. His plane is dotted
with stickers of small flags of
several of the countries he visit
ed.
He said the most difhicult
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Photo by Jack Plunkett
Margaret Morales, ieft, reacts, while talking about her brother,
David, on the porch of her Austin, Texas townhouse, Wednesday,
June 20, 2007. Celebrants at an informal Juneteenth party in a
crowded public housing complex parking lot turned into an angry
mob Tuesday night, that beat Morales' brother, David Rivas
Morales, to death after the car he was riding in apparently
struck and injured a child.
“You just had a group
of individuals that decid
ed that they wanted to
do something entirely
different. It’s just sad
that you have a few fools
that got out of hand,”
McArthur Weddle, June
teenth Day president. He
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gave birth to a daughter they
named Sam Alexis Woods.
The news was announced on
his Web site, leaving out such
details as height and weight
and when she was born.
“Pictures of Sam Alexis
Woods will be made available
shortly,” it said beneath a
short note from Woods.
The big question is when
anyone will see this child in
public.
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where at a golf tournament
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Barrington Irving, right, a 23-year-old Jamaicanbom pilot, is welcomed by his brothers Ricardo, left, and
Christopher, lower left, after landing at Opa-locka Alrport, Wednesday, June 27, 2007 in Opa-locka, Fla., end
ing a three-month journey to become what he says is the youngest person to fly around the world alone.
part of the trip was weather,
which delayed some legs, and
has no plans to change
the event next year.
In addition to the man
beaten, police also
responded to a second
fight about a block away.
An officer who was try
ing to break up a fight
between groups of girls
Teen gunman’s final words: ‘l've just killed 2 cops.’
By RYAN LENZ
Associated Press Writer
GEORGETOWN, Ind.
(AP) — The final words of a
15-year-old boy who
ambushed two police officers
responding to a disturbance
at his parents’ home were
haunting and matter-of-fact.
“I've just killed two cops.
Goodbye,” Tyler Dumstorf
wrote in a message posted on
his MySpace profile just
minutes after fatally wound
ing one officer and seriously
injuring another.
The message capped a 14-
minute standoff with police
that ended when Dumstorf
was found dead early Tues
day from a self-inflicted gun
shot wound in his parents’
home about 15 miles outside
Louisville.
Floyd County Prosecutor
Keith Henderson said the
shootings should be a warn
ing to communities that
teen violence should not go
overlooked.
“It's important that we just
don't pass this on and say it’s
another tragic occurrence for
police,” Henderson said.
“We should never expect,
keeping his mind occupied
during the long flights.
was injured when a 17-
year-old girl punched the
sergeant’s riot helmet
hard enough to shatter
the shield.
The officer had cuts to
his face that required
three stitches and had
scratches to his neck.
The girl was in police
custody, facing pessible
charges of battery to an
officer.
Weddle said that, in
addition to the police
presence, Northcott
Neighborhood House
had recruited 200 volun
teers from various com
munity agencies to pro
vide security.
He said the Juneteenth
celebration began with a
parade and opening cere
monies, during which
the historical signifi
cance of the day is dis
cussed, that being the
end to slavery.
nor should we ever accept,
the violence.”
Deputy Frank Denzinger,
a four-year veteran of the
sheriff’s department, and
Deputy Joel White had gone
to the home Monday
evening to investigate a call
from the teen’s mother about
a confrontation with her son.
The boy immediately
ambushed them from an
upstairs window with a
World War 11 sniper rifle
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frustrated,” he said.
Crime fighting coalition touts
progress after 100 days
By MARY FOSTER
Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -A
group of business and commu
nity Ymdcm who joined forces
to find ways to reduce violent
crime in New Orleans on
Wednesday issued a 100-day
progress report touting somc
SUCCESS.
“This unprecedented align
ment of a diverse group of busi
ness and civic organizations has
produced actual creative results
in this essential fight against
crime,” said Gregory Rusovich,
chairman of the Business
Coundail of New Orleans and
member of the coalition.
Among the successes was
securing $6.2 million in federal
funding that will be used to put
a district attorney unit in cach
New Orleans police district,
fund and staff a violent offend
ers unit in the district attorney’s
office, and add 50 officers to
the police force, among other
things.
“I'm not sure when we'll
actually get the new officers,”
said assistant police chiet John
taught him to fire. Officers
were talking to Dumstorf’s
mother and aunt in the
driveway when the shots
came, said Sgt. Jerry Goodin,
spokesman for the Indiana
State Police.
Each deputy was struck
once in the back. White
returned fire but missed.
Tyler Dumstorf, who had
just completed his freshman
year at Floyd Central High
School in nearby Floyds
Knobs, was due in court
Irving was born in Jamaica
and grew up in Miami. He said
he saw littde chance for success
until he met a Jamaican-Amer
ican pilot at his parents” book
store who took him tw see a
Bocing 777. The 15-year-old
was mesmenzed and tumed
down college tootball scholar
ships to become a pilot.
Irving is now studying at
Florida Memorial University
and has private and commer
cial pilot licenses. He also
founded Experience Aviation, a
Miami-based organization that
encourages minority vouths to
purstic aviation careers.
He said a book and docu
mentary are likely as well as
other projects.
“I have a lot of great ideas,”
Irving said.
Bryson. “But they will be ull
time officers.”
Farlier this month the FBI
declared New Orleans the
nations murder capital. With
162 murders in 2000, the city
was far bloodier than any place
else in the country — even sur
passing such deadly cities as
Gary, Ind., and Detroit.
The FBl's figures pegged
New Orleans™ 2006 population
at 431,153, an esumate that
doesnt take the cuy’s losses
trom Hurricane Katrina in
2005 into account. At that
population, the murder rate
would be 38 murders per
100,000 residents _ eighth out
of 254 cities with more than
100,000 residents.
But even the most generous
current estimate ot about
255,000 residents —almost cer
tainly higher than last years
population — would mean a
rate of 63.5 murders per
100,000 residents. Gary's was
48.3 and Detroits 47.1.
So far this year there have
been 92 murders. The bulk of
See Crime, page 8A
Tuesday on a misdemeanor
marijuana charge, Hender
son said. The charge was a
subject of the argument
between the teen and his
mother, but Henderson said
it was premature to say it was
the reason for the shooting.
“There was nothing to
indicate to the officers that it
was anything more than a
routine domestic call,” he
said.
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