Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census undercounts black, Hispanic children

Black and Hispanic children, particularly those in urban areas, make up a disproportionately high percentage of the 1.1 million children missed by the 2000 census, according to newly released government estimates.

Those children account for about half the undercount, but made up only about one-third of all U.S. children.

Los Angeles County and Cook County, Ill., which includes Chicago, were among the places with the highest minority undercounts of children and adults. Sparsely populated rural counties across the West and Midwest also had some of the highest rates of people missed

The data, released by the Census Bureau under court order, showed that about 3.3 million people were missed nationwide, or about 1.2 percent of the entire population.

South Dakota: ‘Burning Bush’ remark nets prison sentence

A man who made a remark about a “burning Bush” during the president’s March 2001 trip to Sioux Falls was sentenced Friday to 37 months in prison.

Richard Humphreys of Portland, Ore., was convicted in September of threatening to kill or harm the president and said he planned to appeal. He has said the comment was a prophecy protected under his right to free speech.

Humphreys said he got into a barroom discussion in nearby Watertown with a truck driver. A bartender who overheard the conversation realized the president was to visit Sioux Falls the next day and told police Humphreys talked about a “burning Bush” and the possibility of someone pouring a flammable liquid on Bush and lighting it.

Miami: Second body found near plane crash site

A man found dead Friday in a golf course lake was a passenger on a small plane that plowed into the building housing the Federal Reserve Bank, killing the pilot, police said.

Medical examiners identified the two men who were aboard the prototype Four Winds 192 that crashed Thursday night but did not immediately release their identities. Their employer, an airplane sales company, identified them as a flight instructor and sales manager.

The plane hit the bank branch as officials there threw a holiday party. No one inside the one-story, 280,000-square-foot building was injured. Authorities called the crash an accident.