| Show NationalWorld Standard- - Examiner 3A Monday Apnl 162001 Spy plane crew members celebrate Easter Air Station after 11 days on Hainan island where their surveillance plane was forced to land after a collision with a Chinese fighter jet Xhey were released after diplomatic talks "God has cared for them watched over them We are particularly particularly happy because Lt Richard Payne is with us again” O’Leary said Payne shook hands with s as he stood quietly along the wall with his lay Eucharistic minister Jane Ritter --“When they come home to be with their families it’s even more so" Congregations all over this town of 21000 outside the Navy base 50 milts north of Seattle celebrated the return of the crew they call the Whidbey 24 A message written in soap on a van’s windows in the Family Bible Church parking lot said ”24 answered prayers" “The' events of the last two mother Brenda Payne and weeks have been miracles” deother family members “We’re clared Pastor Ron Willis at the just glad he’s home” Brenda church where Lt jg Jeffery V - Vignery Lt Patrick Honeck Payne said "The whole Easter season is and their families celebrated just a time for rejoicing” said Easter "They experienced vic The Associated Press OAK HARBOR Wash -Church bells rang for a joyous Easter Sunday in this Navy town where crew members given a hero’s welcome after being held in China spent their first full day reunited with family and friends “We are most of all happy because of the return of the 24 crew members” the Rev John O’Leary told a crowd of hundreds which overflowed from St Augustine Catholic Church on a sunny spring day On Saturday a military' passenger jet brought the 21 men and three women back to their base at Whidbey Island Naval well-wisher- tory over physical death God can and does intervene” Ron and Judy Vignery parents of the crew member could not remember a happier holiday “All the parents of the world should just think about what it would be like if it was their son All they’ve got to do is think about their own son or daughter and they’ll know how we feel" Ron Vignery said as his son exchanged hugs with church friends "Our son is our hero" A big sign outside Southern Baptist Church proclaimed “Praise God They’re Back" ELAINE THOMPSON Press The Associated Richard Payne stands with members of his family dunng a service at St Augustine Catholic Church Sunday in Oak Harbor Wash He was one of 24 members of a spy plane that made an emergency landing in China Illinois bar shooting suspect obsessed with guns witnesses say t"'0 handguns tWO shot- uns and 200 rounds of live ammunition police stud 9n Sunday Casteel - n scribed bV acquaintances as a divorced construction worker dered held without “ Wi!s bond1S charged with e murder attempt-witnesse- s ed murder and firearms and assault Police said Casteel had served 13 years in prison on a 1978 armed robbery convic-Ba- r inK The Associated Press ELGIN 111 - The man ac- cused of shcxiting 18 people in a crowded bar was an ex- obsessed with guns and the mov'ie "Natural Born Kill- ers" who shaved his head and donned fatigues before the attack acquaintances and ‘ said Sunday Lu- Police said ther “Luke" V Casteel return- ed to the bar early Saturday after being asked to leave patron Michael York r huddled inside a garbage Neighbors in can behind the bar during the Elgin about 35 miles west of shcxiting said he heard Cas- - Chicago said Casteel lived teel shout "I’m the king - alone in a town house with his dog how do you like me now?" "I can still hear that laugh" “It is a shock” said Brian York said “How can you White “He was a good neigh-laugwhen you’re killing bor I've never seen a hostile bone in his body" people?” Two people were killed A friend of Casteel's who e and 16 others wounded by was at the bar with him Five patrons suf- - er in the night said he was fered cuts bumps and obsessed with guns military bruises as they tried to es- - paraphernalia and the film "Natural Born Killers" in cape police said Casteel was wearing mill- - which two killers embark on tary-styl- e fatigues and carry- - a crime spree de-co- first-degre- i°n-wh- blue-colla- h earli-gunfir- Assisted Living (miaous FERNANDO LLANOVThe Associated LONG TERM CARE SEMINAR Press Presented by Chirk Child APRIL 19 rimr (VOC pm (‘nmpli'im-ntiry bullet Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez review the honor guard during the welcoming ceremony at Caracas’ International Airport in Maiquetia Venezuela Sunday -'- (SOI Chinese president seeks support on rights issue in Venezuela The Associated Press Venezuela - 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