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3 adults, 1 child shot at Florida park

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.

Police say an 11-year-old boy and three adults have been shot at a South Florida park but that none of the wounds are life-threatening.

Miami Gardens police say all four wounded were taken to a hospital Wednesday night.

Capt. Ralph Suarez says about 10 to 12 shots were fired from outside Bunche Park. Authorities are looking for a black Chevy Impala.

A witness tells The Associated Press the injured boy was practicing with a youth football league. The players were all young boys and ran for cover. The witness says the injured men were playing basketball nearby.

No further details were immediately available.

Polish pilot rejects ‘hero’ label

WARSAW, Poland

The Polish pilot hailed for landing a Boeing 767 jetliner on its belly after its landing gear failed stepped into the public eye Wednesday looking stiff and uncomfortable, and insisted that all the talk of heroism “is exaggerated.”

Capt. Tadeusz Wrona set the jetliner down so gently that many of the 231 people on board thought it had landed on its wheels — until they saw fire, sparks and smoke rising from beneath the aircraft as it slid down the Warsaw airport runway.

The 54-year-old pilot for the Polish national carrier LOT deflected the praise, saying he merely did what he was trained to do.

Formula ads reduce breastfeeding

MANILA, Philippines

The World Health Organization says a study has found that Filipino mothers who have been enticed by advertisements or their doctors to use infant formula are two to four times more likely to feed their babies with those products.

Published by the Social Science and Medicine Journal, the study says those mothers were 6.4 times more likely to stop breastfeeding babies within one year of giving birth — a step that raises risks of illness and death for the infant.

The study wants to examine if marketing for breast-milk substitutes was to blame for a drop in breastfeeding in the Philippines, one of the countries where multinational companies fought a legal battle for the right to aggressively sell baby formulas.

Man sentenced for drugs on ship

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands

A judge in the U.S. Virgin Islands has sentenced a California man to 21 months in prison for dealing drugs on board a cruise ship.

U.S. District Court Judge Curtis Gomez said Wednesay that Steven Barry Krumholz used his cruise ship room “as if it was an apothecary for controlled substances.”

Krumholz pleaded guilty in July to dealing drugs. The 51-year-old man admitted selling ecstasy, methamphetamine and ketamine to fellow passengers on board the Allure of the Seas last February.

Plan sought to deter asylum seekers

CANBERRA, Australia

Prime Minister Julia Gillard says her thwarted asylum policy would deter people from attempting to reach Australia by boat as those who made a fatal journey did this week.

Police in Indonesia say eight people drowned about 30 may be missing from a boat that capsized Tuesday.

Gillard told reporters Thursday that the tragedy “tears at your heart.”

Gillard supports legislation shelved last month that would enable Australia to send 800 new boat arrivals to Malaysia in return for Australia resettling 4,000 registered refugees from Kuala Lumpur.

Associated Press