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This is the plight facing Tom and June Fisher, a Cincinnati, Ohio, couple with three children. Though both Tom and June worked in an auto-parts factory, they still could not afford their rented trailer and had to move out. A state agency has placed the family temporarily in a motel room and pays part of the $45-a-night tab. June now cleans rooms in the motel, and Tom works in a sports bar. But it's a struggle. The family shares two double beds, a cot and one chair; toys and school books are stored underneath the beds...
...Sept. 26 Cincinnati Police Officer Steven Roach was found not guilty of negligent homicide in the shooting of Timothy Thomas, 19, whose death touched off three days of riots in late April. "I still don't know the truth," said Thomas' mother, Angela Leisure. "I still have no satisfaction." Leisure has filed wrongful-death and civil rights suits naming the police and Roach. Scattered violence followed the verdict, and Mayor Charlie Luken imposed a curfew. But the city has largely remained calm...
Calm, but not serene. Roach was one of three white officers recently acquitted of crimes against black men killed in confrontations with Cincinnati cops--outcomes that did nothing to heal the city's racial rifts. "You've got a lot of African Americans who won't give the officers a chance to change, and you have a lot of officers who won't let African Americans change. How do you bridge that gap?" asks Walter White, an African-American resident...
...whose convenience seems as appealing to bad guys as to the public. Among recent notorious customers: the Sept. 11 terrorists, who made their plane reservations on the computers at a Florida Kinko's, and anthrax hoaxer Clayton Lee Waagner, who was arrested last week at a Kinko's near Cincinnati, Ohio...
...will succeed Levin as the head of the company in May 2002. ARRESTED. CLAYTON LEE WAAGNER, 45, an escaped convict and one of the fbi's 10 Most Wanted fugitives, for allegedly mailing more than 550 hoax anthrax letters signed "Army of God" to about 280 abortion clinics; in Cincinnati, Ohio. Waagner, found with $8,986 in cash and a .40-caliber loaded semiautomatic pistol, had escaped from an Illinois jail in February. CONVICTED. A. ALFRED TAUBMAN, 76, the former chairman of Sotheby's, of conspiring with rival auction house Christie's to fix commissions paid by fine art sellers...