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Korea POW insists he is still alive

BELLEVUE, Wash., April 9 (UPI) -- A Bellevue, Wash., man whose jet was shot down over Korea in 1953 says he still has trouble persuading the U.S. government he is alive.

Edwin "Nick" Nixon, 79 -- who was spent six months in North Korean prisoner of war camps after his plane was shot down during the war -- said the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration send him letters from time to time questioning whether he is still alive, The Seattle Times reported Wednesday.

"Now I've got the name and phone number of a woman at Social Security who fixes it," Nixon said. "I used to have to write letters and go to the local office to prove I was alive."

Nixon was declared dead after his jet was shot down March 1, 1953, and his name remains on a list of those killed-in-action at the Garden of Remembrance in Seattle.

The former pilot recently authored a book about his experiences, titled "Killed in Action -- Dead ... Wrong!"

Truck could lead to house foreclosure

ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla., April 9 (UPI) -- Officials in a Florida community say they are willing to foreclose on two brothers' house for not paying fines for illegally keeping a big truck there.

Christopher and Jeff George of Royal Palm Beach lost their appeal of the $10,000 in fines the village levied against them over the course of two years for keeping a Ford F-650 truck, the second-largest truck made by Ford, in the residential neighborhood, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Wednesday.

The brothers argued unsuccessfully in court that the village was violating their constitutional rights by not allowing them to keep the truck at home. The Palm Beach County Circuit Court sided with the village, and Lynda Walker, the village's code enforcement supervisor, said Royal Palm Beach may foreclose on the $348,000 house to recover the unpaid fines.

Jeff George, 27, said he plans a further appeal, but will pay the fines before losing the house.

"I'm going to appeal it again," he said. "It's not going to end until I win. I'm in the right."

College Web site visitors directed to porn

PENDLETON, Ore., April 9 (UPI) -- The Web coordinator for Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Ore., said hackers redirected an old Web address to a display of pornographic images.

Jacque Talboy said Web surfers searching for the school on search engines are given an old address that is supposed to redirect to the college's new site, but she said the school received phone calls Monday from people who had instead been redirected to a page filled with pornography, The (Pendleton) East Oregonian reported Wednesday.

"We got hacked, purely and simply, by an outside source," Talboy said. "They didn't get our main site. They got an old URL that we used to use."

Talboy said she and her team worked quickly to correct the problem.

"We had a solution in place in about 15 minutes," she said.

Talboy said the school is installing safeguards to ensure the problem does not recur.

Jet lands on Fla. road

OKEECHOBEE, Fla., April 9 (UPI) -- Motorists said they were shocked when a TS-11 Iskra training jet landed on a stretch of State Road 70 outside of Okeechobee, Fla.

Shannon Bobbitt said she was driving and talking on her cell phone to her husband Monday when the van in front of her suddenly swerved out of her line of sight, revealing a curious presence just above the road, the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post reported Wednesday.

"There was an airplane coming down the road," she said.

Bobbitt and several other motorists managed to swerve out of the path of the aircraft.

The two-passenger jet, piloted by Bob Jeffery, managed to avoid power lines and cars as it made an emergency landing on the road. Jeffery told Okeechobee County sheriff's officials the jet lost power in mid-air and the road was the safest landing spot he could find.

No one was injured in the incident.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it has been notified of the emergency landing and the National Transportation Safety Board has begun an investigation.