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Knighton was 14 and living with his father when he began selling crack cocaine. A year later, he was stealing cars and running a $1,000-a-day drug operation. His life savings -- what he called his "bank account" -- was $30,000 worth of crack and a gold Cadillac. As the boy began making big money, he became a target himself. That inspired him to get his first gun. Weapons were so plentiful that he never had to buy one but simply borrowed from friends. Openly proud of the firearms he has used, Knighton smiles fondly as he recalls each...
When the showdown began, Buffalo had studied Wichita and was prepared. A federal judge issued an injunction two months ago that threatened antiabortion protesters with $10,000-a-day fines for coming within 15 ft. of a clinic door. Police and sheriff's deputies in the past month were given everything from "sensitivity training" to drills in how to protect their back when bending over to pick up limp bodies. Barricades were erected around the clinics before dawn, so Wednesday's charge against one in the suburb of Amherst, which resulted in 194 undramatic arrests, was reduced to an exercise...
...country just took an uphill climb for Hertz customers in New York City. Last week the rental-car agency imposed a surcharge on residents of four of the city's five boroughs who rent autos in the metropolitan area (spared: Staten Islanders). For Bronx residents, it means a $56-a-day boost. The firm says it aims to regain the millions of dollars it has lost under the state's vicarious-liability law, which places damage liability in the hands of a car owner -- in this case Hertz -- even if the owner isn't behind the wheel. But the real...
...than 100 current and former officials, provides a tantalizing glimpse inside the installation. Mount Weather is a virtually self-contained facility. Aboveground, scattered across manicured lawns, are about a dozen buildings bristling with antennas and microwave relay systems. An on-site sewage- treatment plant, with a 90,000-gal.-a-day capacity, and two tanks holding 250,000 gal. of water could last some 200 people more than a month; underground ponds hold additional water supplies. Not far from the installation's entry gate are a control tower and a helicopter landing pad. The mountain's real secrets...
...state shield law, which bars judges from finding reporters in contempt for protecting a source, when Richard Serrano of the Los Angeles Times would not say how he got a secret report about the notorious videotaped police beating of Rodney King. In May, Kamins imposed a $1,500-a-day fine, later much reduced, claiming the punishment was not for contempt but for refusal to expose who violated Kamins' gag order...