Kent State

(Editor's note: Four students were shot and killed at Kent State University on May 4, 1970) As reported May 12, 1970, in The Sun: Howard County police arrested 21 students from Atholton High School yesterday after a group of students refused to give up their attempt to lower the school's American flag to half-staff. The arrests which were made at the request of the county's school superintendent, Dr. M. Thomas Goedeke, came after a lunch-hour protest against the war in Southeast Asia, according to school officials.

RICHARD C. WOLFE, of Baltimore, died April 27, 2006 of heart failure at age 63. He was a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and received an MA in English Literature from Kent State University. Early in his career he was an instructor of English at Towson State University. At the time of his death, he was employed by the Yellow Cab Company. He leaves a daughter, Pamela Goodrum, in California, a son, Erik Wolfe, in Georgia, and a brother, Paul Wolfe, in New Hampshire. No funeral service is planned.

Fate has dealt Jeremy McGown's trip home a knockout punch. It was all going to be so heartwarming, family and friends from Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma converging on Houston on Sept. 24 for the third time in his Navy career when the Midshipmen took on Rice. Then, Hurricane Rita intervened, the game was postponed for nearly a month and the reunion would have to wait. Still, it would eventually happen. Now, it won't happen at all. On the Saturday after the postponement, McGown fractured his left arm in a freak injury at Duke when teammate Irv Spencer "swung around and hit me with a leg whip from behind when I went to break up a screen," said McGown, who has missed the past two games and is not expected back for two more.

Coach Paul Johnson sat down in Navy's film room yesterday and watched what to him bordered on a horror show. His players showed little inspiration. There was lackadaisical execution. Blown assignments. Mistakes, both mental and physical. Four turnovers. Kickoffs out of bounds. Bad snaps. Poor blocking. There was plenty of criticism to go around. And this was after the Midshipmen had outlasted Kent State Saturday, 34-31, for their third straight victory, amassed a season-best 532 offensive yards and controlled the ball for 35 of the 60 minutes.

Nothing comes easy for the 2005 Navy football team. The Midshipmen won for the third straight time yesterday, but no one on the team was doing any cartwheels after they barely outlasted two-touchdown underdog Kent State, 34-31, before 30,316 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Navy@Rice Saturday, 6 p.m., 1090 AM, 1430 AM

A Navy secondary that has been completely revamped gets an immediate test today at home against a team that fills the air with footballs. With cornerback Jeremy McGown out with a broken arm, Navy's starting secondary from a year ago has been overhauled. And up next today is Kent State, which usually struggles early and then is forced to open its passing game. The Golden Flashes haven't scored in the first half since Sept. 10, but they average 288.2 passing yards per game. Quarterback Michael Machen, who at 6 feet 6 "is bigger than anybody we have," said Navy coach Paul Johnson, will play after missing the last game with a strained left knee.

Navy is striving to avoid the possibility of getting lax this week after a last-second victory over service academy rival Air Force that was one of the most emotionally satisfying, and draining, in the football program's long history. A 1-4 Kent State team that has defeated only winless Southeast Missouri State comes to Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Saturday bent on beating the Midshipmen for the first time, and the Navy coaching staff is issuing constant reminders that this is no time for a letdown.

The FBI is investigating former Baltimore County state Sen. Thomas L. Bromwell, head of the Injured Workers' Insurance Fund, in an inquiry that law enforcement sources say centers on Bromwell's relationship with a construction company that has participated in high-profile state projects. Federal investigators asked the Maryland General Assembly last month for a list of staff members who worked for the Democratic senator between 1998 and 2002, the most visible step to date in a case that has been quietly proceeding for months.

KENT, Ohio -- Sun plays off the streaks of gray in Alan Canfora's ponytail as he strolls the same green hills where he and 12 other Kent State University students were shot by National Guardsmen in 1970. He was a longhair then, too -- opposed to the Vietnam War and the invasion of Cambodia; opposed to how, after student rioting, rifle-toting National Guard units had been called on campus; opposed, like many of his generation, to a lot of things, including what they liked to call "the system."