Nine-year-old girl remains missing
Homosassa, Fla. A man photographed at a convenience store with two children hours after a girl vanished from her nearby home was not involved in the girl’s disappearance, police said Sunday.
Police released a surveillance photo, believing it may hold clues to the whereabouts of 9-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford.
Lunsford’s relatives saw the videotape and did not think the girl looked like Jessica, police said.
Meanwhile, the fourth day of the search for Lunsford ended without any sign of her. She was last seen Wednesday night when she went to bed. Her father discovered she was missing the next day. Police said a door at the home was unlocked.
Chemical detectors faulty, report states
Salt Lake City A Defense Department report says the Air Force wasted $1 million on unreliable hand-held chemical agent detectors that could have put at risk any airmen who depended on them, media reported Sunday.
Air Force officials may have violated federal laws and military rules when they bought 100 versions of the detectors and supplied them to commanders in the Middle East while knowing the manufacturer’s tests showed the detectors did not work well in hot areas or under battle conditions, the Deseret Morning News reported.
The Pentagon has ordered the Air Force to stop using the 100 detectors and to send them to military testers.
Henry A. Grunwald, ex-Time editor, dies
New York Henry A. Grunwald, a Time magazine editor who led its shift from conservatism to a more centrist view before becoming ambassador to Austria, has died. He was 82.
Grunwald died of heart failure Saturday at his Manhattan home, according to his daughter.
One noted item of his tenure was when he wrote Time’s editorial during the Watergate scandal asking President Richard Nixon to resign.
Falwell may be leaving the hospital this week
Lynchburg, Va. Doctors removed the Rev. Jerry Falwell’s breathing tube Sunday, possibly allowing him to leave the hospital early this week, his family said.
Falwell, 71, has been at Lynchburg General Hospital since Feb. 20, when he experienced congestion and breathing problems. Doctors put him on a ventilator Wednesday after diagnosing him with viral pneumonia, his son said.
Falwell is a little tired and “his biggest problem now is boredom,” Jerry Falwell Jr. said of his father, the pastor and chancellor of Liberty University.
Unable to speak while the tube was down his throat, Falwell wrote notes assuring family members he was doing well, his son said.