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STATE BRIEFS
Bi-plane spins off
runway, no injuries
LAWRENCEVILLE (AP)
- A small biplane slid off
the runway at Briscoe Field
in Lawrenceville Thursday
with no injuries and no dam
age to the craft, authorities
said.
Lt. Thomas Rutledge, pub
lic information officer of the
Gwinnett County Fire &
Emergency Services office,
said firefighters responded
to the report of the downed
plane which experienced
trouble with a rear wheel
upon landing.
“This was not an emergen
cy landing,” Rutledge said.
“The gear/wheel problem
occurred during landing.”
Youth pastor
arrested in sting
PEACHTREE CITY (AP) -
A church youth pastor is the
latest person arrested in an
ongoing Internet child sex
sting operation by Peachtree
City police.
Police arrested Robert Kyle
Amereon on Wednesday and
charged him with violating
the Computer Pornography
and Child Exploitation Act
of 1999.
Amerson, a youth pastor
for Abundant Life Worship
Center in Tyrone, used the
Internet to arrange to meet
an undercover officer he
thought was a 14-year-old
girl, police said.
Amerson is the 16th per
son to be arrested in a cam
paign by Peachtree City
police to catch people who
use the Internet to have sex
with children.
Georgia creates
large print map
ATLANTA (AP)
According to a new map,
Georgia is 25 percent larger
than normal.
That’s because the new
map is a large print ver
sion, the first of its kind
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Atlanta 89 69 t-storm
Augusta 92 72 pt sunny
Bainbridge 95 74 pt sunny
Brunswick 88 76 t-storm
Cartersville 90 68 t-storm
Chattanooga,TN 80 66 t-storm
Columbus 93 73 pt sunny
Cordele 93 72 pt sunny
National Cities
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Atlanta 89 69 t storm
Boston 70 63 rain
Chicago 75 61 pt sunny
Dallas 90 73 t-storm
Denver 89 57 pt sunny
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in the state, created by
the state Department of
Transportation.
The large print version
depicts the top half of the
state on one side and the
bottom half on the other. It
also has a grid-like feature
that helps drivers line up
the two sides. The depart
ment created 400,000 copies
of the new map and the state
Department of Economic
Development will distribute
them to the state’s welcome
centers. If the large print
version is well received by
motorists, more of the maps
will be made, transportation
department officials said in
a statement. -
The maps also are avail
able at the department’s
seven engineering district
offices and online.
Savannah drug
suspect arrested
SAVANNAH (AP) - A
Savannah man arrested
in Florida on federal drug
charges faked his death last
year when he reportedly fell
off his shrimp boat into the
waters of Ossabaw Sound.
Kevin Klarell Washington,
32, had been missing since
Sept. 13, 2005, when a crew
member on his shrimp boat,
“God’s Mercy,” made an
emergency cell phone call
saying Washington had fall
en overboard.
The Coast Guard searched
for Washington in the waters
near Savannah for nearly
two days and his family
mourned him at a memorial
service in October.
Nine months later, on
Tuesday, federal authorities
arrested Washington at a
house in Orlando, Fla., on
charges of distributing crack
cocaine in Georgia.
“We got him, and he ain’t
dead,” said Tommy Long of
the U.S. Marshal’s Service
Southeast Regional Fugitive
Task Force.
Authorities had been sus
picious of Washington’s sup
posed death from the start.
Meteorologists
Derek Kinkade
and
Jerry Mathewson
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Dillard 81 61 t-storm
Dublin 96 70 pt sunny
Duluth 88 67 t-storm
Gainesville 86 69 t storm
Helen 85 64 t-storm
Lagrange 91 68 t-storm
Macon 92 71 pt sunny
Marietta 91 70 t-storm
Milledgeville 97 76 pt sunny
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Houston 90 7? t storm
Los Angeles 77 68 pt sunny
Miami 88 78 rain
Minneapolis 80 63 t-storm
New York 80 69 rain
At the time he went missing,
he was three days away from
a federal drug indictment,
Long said.
“Due the timing of his
alleged drowning, we did
not believe at any time it
was true,” said William
Kirkconnell, the FBl’s super
visory senior special agent in
Savannah.
Washington’s wife,
29-year-old Lavonnia
Washington, was also arrest
ed in Savannah on charges
of conspiracy to possess and
distribute crack cocaine.
Long said the hunt for
Kevin Washington began sev
eral weeks ago after authori
ties received tips that he
was still alive. Washington’s
Georgia driver’s license had
also been renewed since he’d
been missing.
Washington had sailed his
shrimp boat into Ossabaw
Sound in the early morn
ing hours of Sept. 13 when
his lone crewmate, Timothy
Sapp, placed a frantic 911
call from his cell phone.
Sapp said Washington had
been knocked overboard by
a net that fell and hit him
over the head.
Coast Guard cutters and
helicopters searched 2,100
square miles of water before
giving up their search.
Hundreds attended
a memorial service for
Washington two weeks later
at Litway Missionary Baptist
Church. The church’s pas
tor, the Rev. Leonard Small,
said he was angry to learn
Washington’s death was a
hoax.
“We at Litway Missionary
Baptist Church are appalled
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Peachtree City 90 66 t-storm
Perry 93 71 pt sunny
Rome 95 69 t-storm
Savannah 91 71 rain
St. Simons Islandßß 76 t-storm
Statesboro 96 73 pt sunny
Thomasville 94 72 pt sunny
Valdosta 95 70 pt sunny
Warner Robins 93 70 pt sunny
Waycross 92 70 pt sunny
Phoenix 111 86 pt sunny
San Francisco 71 59 mst sunny
Seattle 77 59 sunny
St. Louis 86 66 sunny
Washington, DC 80 70 t-storm
that anyone would put up
such a charade and commit
such fraud on the church of
the living God,” Small said.
Drug suspect dies
after crashing
NORCROSS (AP) - A sus
pect was killed after crash
ing into an unmarked police
van as officers were making
a drug bust.
Gwinnett County police
had observed drug transac
tion at a hotel and were
moving in to arrest three
people early Thursday.
Two suspects fled on foot
and a third drove away in a
white Jeep, said Cpl. Darren
Moloney, spokesman for the
Gwinnett County Police
Department.
Officers arrested one of
the suspects who fled on
foot. Meanwhile, another
officer drove around looking
for the Jeep.
As he was driving, the sus
pect’s vehicle struck the offi
cer’s vehicle from behind,
police said. But the collision
caused the suspect’s vehicle
to lose control and go off the
road, hitting several road
side objects including a light
pole and a tree.
The driver of the Jeep
was pronounced dead at the
scene, Moloney said. No offi
cers were injured in the inci
dent.
The driver’s name was not
immediately released.
The suspect who was
arrested was identified as
George Elbert Blake, 27. He
has been charged with mis
demeanor obstruction.
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WARNER ROBINS - Judy Alexander, 47, passed away on
Tuesday, June 20. Services will be held at 1 p.m., on June
24 at Houston Lake Baptist Church. Alexander was bom
on Jan. 24, 1959 in Mobile, Ala. She was a homemaker,
and a member of Houston Lake Baptist Church. Her par*:
ents, John D. Jackson, Jr. and Dollie Jean Jackson, pre
ceded her in death. Survivors include her husband, Scotty-
Alexander; daughters, Jonnie D. Purvis, April Freeland,:
Deana Alexander; sons, Tony Alexander, Dustyn Alexander;
sister, Jean West, all of Warner Robins; brother, David-
Jackson, Miss.; and five grandchildren.
MLK collection
hitting auction block
By RICHARD PYLE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - When
the collected papers of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. go
up for auction next week,
don’t expect any small-time
memorabilia dealers to make
bids.
With a pre-sale value
between sls million to S3O
million and the King family’s
stipulation that the 10,000
items remain in a single col
lection, the June 30 sale by
Sotheby’s auction house is
expected to attract academic
and civic institutions.
Those expressing interest
include a “pan-Atlanta” con
sortium in the Georgia capi
tal, where King was born and
grew up, various universities
and libraries, the National
Archives and the Library of
Congress, Sotheby’s officials
said as the collection went
on display Wednesday.
The offering presented a
challenge to American insti
tutions “to decide whether
or not they want to save the
King legacy for posterity,”
Sotheby’s vice chairman
David Redden said.
A previous sale three years
ago failed to materialize.
The collection includes
manuscripts, speeches, per
sonal correspondence and
an array of day-to-day items
bearing notations, comments
and thoughts by a man who
seemingly used every scrap
of paper and never threw
any of them away.
They cover the important
period of 1946 to 1968, when
King, inspired by the exam
ple of India’s Mohandas K.
Gandhi, formulated his non
violent strategy for achieving
social justice, and became
the face and voice of the
American civil rights revolu
tion.
Among the papers are
more than 100 sermons,
a draft of the “I Have a
Dream” speech that King
delivered at the Lincoln
Memorial in Washington,
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King’s acceptance address'
when he received the Nobel'
Peace in 1964.
They also include a print- *
ed version of the “Letter’
from Birmingham Jail”'
recently discovered in the'
archive by Elizabeth Muller,
vice president for books and ’
manuscripts at Sotheby’s.'
The version was printed in,
a religious publication, bear
ing handwritten changes *
suggested by King.
“So it was a very unusu-;
al and wonderful discovery
and an indication that there
might be more gems that
could come from the moth
er lode, as it were,” Muller
said.
The Atlanta fundraising
effort to return the King
papers there is led by Mayor
Shirley Franklin and former
Mayor Andrew Young.
It includes Emory
University, Morehouse
College, where King went'
to school, and the Atlanta'
History Society.
“We feel we in Atlanta'
have the strongest argu
ments, his having been *
born there, raised there
and educated there,” said
Lawrence Carter, a profes
sor of religion and dean of;
the Martin Luther King-
Jr. International Chapel at-
Morehouse College.
Carter said he was “cer
tain” that Boston University,-
where King received a doc
torate and which already
owns a huge separate archive
of King papers, would be
another contender for the.
collection.
Vita Paladino, manag-.
ing director of the Howard.
Gotlieb Archival Research
Center at Boston University,.
earlier told The Associated
Press her institution was
unlikely to bid.
“It’s a tough price,” said
Paladino, who oversees
80,000 papers, dated 1955- *
1960, that King donated free
in 1964 to the school.
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