ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, April 14, 1997 TAG: 9704140159
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-2 EDITION: METRO
Still no sign of missing plane or pilot
EAGLE, Colo. - The Air Force launched its first ground search for a missing pilot and his warplane Sunday but found no signs of either after scouring three mountainous areas identified as possible crash sites.
``I'm sorry to report we didn't find anything,'' Lt. Gen. Frank Campbell said after a five-member team used metal detectors and mountaineering gear to search for Capt. Craig Button.
The three sites in the New York Mountain range were searched because U-2 radar photos identified two as possible crash sites and a back-country hiker with a metal detector got a reading in the third.
Two were ruled out, Campbell said.
Searchers may return to the third site today if the weather is good, he said. Earlier, the Air Force discounted two other possible crash sites based on aerial views. One turned out to be a steep rock face, the other is a known area for junk metal.
Button, 32, and his A-10 disappeared April 2 during a training exercise out of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz.
-ASSOCIATED PRESS
Violent crime down, especially in suburbs
WASHINGTON - Americans experienced significantly fewer violent crimes in 1995 than in 1994, with rates for such acts as rape, robbery and assault down by 12.4 percent, the Justice Department said Sunday.
The broadest decline happened in the suburbs, where crime rates dropped in all areas of personal victimization except rape and sexual assault.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics said the fall was the largest recorded since the bureau began taking its annual National Crime Victimization Survey in 1973.
Among white residents age 12 and older, the survey showed overall violent crime declined 12.8 percent. Aggravated assault dropped 24.7 percent.
The decline was less dramatic for black Americans.
``Although there was some evidence of a decline in violent crimes rates for black men and women [down 10.4 percent], the only statistically significant change for them was a 24 percent drop in aggravated assault,'' the report said.
-ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boy uses computer to print counterfeit bills
BAY CITY, Mich. - Authorities traced counterfeit $10 bills to the home of a 15-year-old boy, who allegedly had been using his computer to print the phony bills.
The teen-ager, whose name was not released, admitted the counterfeiting, said police Lt. Chris Rupp.
Officers found practice counterfeit bills in a wastebasket during a search Friday, The Bay City Times reported Sunday. The boy and some friends apparently scanned the image of a $10 bill into his computer and printed copies.
The teen-ager allegedly talked to classmates about the phony bills after businesses and consumers were warned about fake $10 bills.
``Apparently, this lad couldn't keep his lips closed, and they were flapping all over the place in school, where he told people he was the one involved in the counterfeiting,'' Rupp said.
-ASSOCIATED PRESS
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