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8 WICHITA, Kan. – Cadets of Wichita State University’s Army Reserve Officer Training Corps hosted the first annual Capt. Pitts Challenge for Junior ROTC students Apr. 23. More than 70 Army, Air Force and Marine JROTC cadets from the Wichita area participated in the event. “The Captain Pitts Challenge honors Capt. Leroy Pitts, who was a 1960 graduate of Wichita State Army ROTC program,” said Master Sgt. Jeromy Fisher, operations noncommissioned officer and senior instructor for WSU ROTC. “He was deployed to Vietnam and was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for s...

One Thing Leads to Another   I’m not black but there’s a whole lots of times I wish I could say I’m not white.     Lindberg Sanders sat on an orange-beige couch, in his south Memphis home on Shannon Street. It was January 11, 1983. He drank some wine, straight from the bottle. Rolled a joint. Took in a lungful of smoke. The front door was covered in wrought-iron bars. For security. It seems so ironic now. The police were called; Lindberg Sanders was black, one thing led to another. It never ends well: one thing led to another. Black man killed by white police, it's all too familia...

  I’m not black but there’s a whole lots of times I wish I could say I’m not white.     Lindberg Sanders sat on an orange-beige couch, in his south Memphis home on Shannon Street. It was January 11, 1983. He drank some wine, straight from the bottle. Rolled a joint. Took in a lungful of smoke. The front door was covered in wrought-iron bars. For security. It seems so ironic now. The police were called; Lindberg Sanders was black, one thing led to another. It never ends well: one thing led to another. Black man killed by white police, it's all too familiar these days.

Hester who was discharged from the army for violating regulations is the married father of two with a third child on the way. we turn next here tonight to four americans who were killed when a plane crashed right into a shopping mall in australia. the americans were on vacation, and the plane slamming into the mall in broad daylight moments before it opened. tonight, the terrible destruction on the ground there as we learn more about the americans who were lost. abc's david kerley covers aviation. >> reporter: slamming into the australian mall 45 minutes before opening to shoppers, there was...

Holding the ladder, while another man jumped into the freezing water rescuing the boys one by one. >> the one in the back, there was a moment where i was like i can't, i'm not going to get to him, he's too far out. i grabbed the backpack, and i could feel there was a body on it. if i didn't grab him, a second later he was -- he was gone. >> reporter: within minutes emergency crews on the scene, rushing the boys to a hospital. >> i started drowning, so i just swam to the ice, and started holding onto the ice until the guy could pull me out. >> reporter: david, one of the teens is still in the h...