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Barry, 53, was arrested Thursday evening at a downtown hotel in an FBI sting operation. He now faces a misdemeanor cocaine possession charge after testing positive for cocaine in blood and urine tests administered following his arrest...
...more family: a grade school dropout and his wife and children live on the poverty wages they make at their minimum-wage, dead-end $3.35/hour jobs. He sweeps up and runs errands at a downtown restaurant, she does domestic labor. They work eight hours, Monday through Friday, and half a day on Saturday. Would you believe they are actually better off than one-fifth [13 million] of the households in these United States? If that dead-end couple are Black, then their wages make them better off than 45 percent of all Black households! They, and not the glossy...
...peripatetic TV kingpin has relaxed his day-to-day involvement in TBS and toned down his former "Captain Outrageous" image. Divorced from his second wife, Turner lives in a penthouse atop CNN headquarters in downtown Atlanta. But he spends an increasing portion of his time at his various retreats: two plantations in South Carolina and Florida and a ranch in Montana, where he goes fly-fishing and plans to keep a herd of buffalo. "He's much mellower now," says an associate. "He doesn't yell at people." Turner puts it differently: "I am maturing. That's better than aging...
...arrest at a downtown hotel came just three days before Barry planned to formally announce that he would seek re-election to a fourth term and a day before long-time Barry associate Charles Lewis was scheduled for sentencing on drug charges...
...federal law enforcement source who asked not to be identified said the arrest was the result of a "sting" operation in which FBI agents kept under observation a prearranged meeting between the mayor and an unidentified friend in a downtown hotel, the Vista International, about six blocks from the White House...