Jay County teen killed when kite \nhit power line\nPORTLAND, Ind. -- A 13-year-old boy's kite became tangled in power lines, causing him to be fatally shocked, authorities said.\nRyan E. Williams was flying the kite alone outside his home in rural Jay County Sunday afternoon when the string, fortified with wire, touched a power line. Jay County Coroner Mark Barnett said the electrical shock killed the boy.\nWilliams was taken after the shock to Jay County Hospital in the city about 35 miles northwest of Muncie, where he was pronounced dead.\nHe was a home school student and was an avid hunter, trapper, fisherman and rode four-wheelers and horses.\nHe was "one in a million," said Wilmer Fowler, who had tutored Williams for seven years. "He was one of those boys that you don't see in this day and age."
State officials challenge EPA clean-air standards\nINDIANAPOLIS -- State officials said Monday they were going to court in an attempt to stop the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from designating 19 Indiana counties as not meeting new federal clean-air \nstandards.\nMonitoring shows that only three of the 19 exceeded new fine particle air pollution limits last year, but the EPA did not consider the 2004 results before announcing its intention to cite them, said Tom Easterly, commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.\nAttorney General Steve Carter said he was challenging the EPA sanctions in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, which handles such regulatory litigation. The petition was mailed Friday, he said.\nOnly Clark and Dubois in southern Indiana and Marion County, which includes Indianapolis, have measured air quality that does not meet the new limits on fine particles such as dust, dirt, soot and smoke, according to an IDEM statement.\nMonitoring shows Lake, Porter, Elkhart, Floyd, St. Joseph and Vanderburgh counties meet the standard, yet they were among the counties the EPA said it intends to designate as not complying with the limits adopted in 1998.\nNo monitoring data was available for the other areas cited by the EPA, state officials said. Those areas were: Johnson, Morgan, Hendricks, Hamilton and Warrick counties and townships in Jefferson, Dearborn, Spencer, Gibson and Pike counties.
Burglar died after setting fire in \nhome, police say \nRICHMOND, Ind. -- A man broke into a vacant apartment and set it on fire, but died before he could escape, police said Monday.\nFirefighters found Jacob R. Jones, 22, on the floor of the apartment near the city's downtown about 2 a.m. Saturday. Sgt. Brad Berner said. Jones was pronounced dead a short time later at Reid \nHospital.\nInvestigators believed that Jones set the fire after breaking into the second-floor apartment above an appraisal business, Berner said.\nThe apartment had only been vacant for a few days, but police officers found signs of forced entry and vandalism inside, including splashed paint, he said.\nAn autopsy Sunday determined that Jones died from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by smoke inhalation, Wayne County Coroner Kevin Fouche said.\n"I've been a firefighter," Fouche said. "Even if you're familiar with a building, when if fills up with smoke, you become disoriented, you turn right when you should turn left."\nJones was a member of the Army National Guard and had recently returned from a tour of duty in Bosnia, his family told \ninvestigators.
