Idaho-based jet crashes in California
Carlsbad, Calif. A private jet overshot a runway and crashed in flames Tuesday, killing all four people aboard, authorities said.
The Cessna 560 came in for a landing at Southern California McClellan-Palomar Airport on a flight from Hailey, Idaho, but went about 150 yards beyond the runway, smashing through scaffolding and into a commercial storage facility, said Bill Polick, spokesman for the San Diego County Department of Public Works.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known. Polick said the weather was clear with light wind.
One victim was identified by his company as Frank H. Jellinek Jr., 60, chairman emeritus of Fisher Scientific International, a Hampton, N.H., supplier of medical and research instruments. Jellinek was flying to San Diego County to attend business meetings for Fisher Scientific.
In Idaho, the Wood River Journal newspaper reported that others who boarded the plane there were pilot Jack Francis, co-pilot Andy Garrett and passenger Janet Shafran, wife of one of the aircraft’s registered owners. The plane was registered to Goship Air LLC of Ketchum, Idaho
Strip-search settlement goes to child support
Augusta, Maine Nearly 300 people who were awarded more than $450,000 in a class action lawsuit over jailhouse strip searches handed the money back to the state to pay child support and related debts.
Former prisoners who believed they were illegally strip searched between 1996 and 2004 at the York County Jail were awarded $3.3 million in the 1,350-member, class-action settlement.
State officials discovered that 284 plaintiffs owed child support, and working with the state attorney general’s office and U.S. District Court, recovered $463,000.
Of the total, $240,000 went to the children’s families, and the rest went to state and federal governments to help repay the cost of public assistance during the time that support payments were not available, state officials said.
Gun fires at day-care, wounding 7-year-old
Germantown, Md. A 7-year-old girl was shot in the arm at a day-care center Tuesday after an 8-year-old classmate brought in one of his father’s guns and it accidentally went off, authorities said.
The father was arrested for gun offenses, and court documents outlined an extensive criminal record. The boy also was charged, but authorities said that was done only so he could be helped by juvenile authorities.
The boy had the weapon in a backpack and was playing with it when it went off. The girl was taken to a Washington hospital with a wound that was not considered life-threatening.
Mormon church leader treated in hospital
Salt Lake City Gordon B. Hinckley, the 95-year-old president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was hospitalized Tuesday for what church officials described as a routine procedure.
Hinckley, president of the 12 million-member Mormon church since 1995, was at an undisclosed hospital Tuesday afternoon, church spokeswoman Kim Farah said.
No other details, including which hospital and the nature of the medical procedure, were immediately available.
Hinckley disclosed last summer, on his 95th birthday, that he has diabetes.