Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charms of Colebrook are made excruciatingly painful by the main story in the News and Sentinel, an account written on deadline under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. FOUR GUNNED DOWN IN COLEBROOK; EDITOR, LAWYER, TWO OFFICERS DEAD reads the banner headline over this lead by John Harrigan: "It was a crime of unbelievable proportions that left at least five people dead, a newspaper and a police fraternity in shock and a community stunned to its core." On the afternoon of Aug. 19, Carl Drega, a loner with a murderous grudge and an AR-15 assault rifle, gunned down New Hampshire...
...Colebrook since the paper was established in 1870. Fred and Esther Harrigan, John's parents, ran the paper for many years. For several years after John bought the Coos County Democrat in Lancaster, 30 miles south of Colebrook, he competed with his father. When Fred, who was also a lawyer and judge, died in 1992, John took over the News and Sentinel, and Bunnell, a local girl who had returned to Colebrook after becoming an attorney, moved into Fred's old law office...
...talked her into giving him $36,000 for an apparently nonexistent children's home. "I was stupid," she says. But then, like many elderly women, she had never learned how to handle money. In her younger days, wives left all financial decisions to their husbands. Her spouse, a lawyer who died in 1988, "would have known better," says Coleman. "He always warned me, 'Somebody will try to get your money.' And they...
Elderly residents are sometimes the target of home-repair scams. "These people are cash poor but real estate rich," says Frederick Arriaga, a lawyer with Legal Aid in New York. Their houses, however, may be old and in need of repair. One three-story row house in Brooklyn, N.Y., was bought for $25,000 in 1968 by Warren Singleton, a safety officer at a public school, and his wife Minnie, a health-care assistant. They hoped it would yield enough rental income to support their retirement. After bad tenants just about wrecked the two top floors, Minnie responded...
...Clinton lawyer Bob Bennett, constrained by politics from delving into PAULA JONES' sexual history as he prepares for a possible trial in her harassment suit, intends to probe what he asserts was Jones' real motive for coming forward: money. To that end, a crucial witness could be CARRIE FERRARO, who rented Paula and Steve Jones a Glendale, Calif., house in May 1993. Ferraro told TIME that almost from the start, the couple complained of being broke. They were frequently late paying the $900 monthly rent, she says, and Paula often asked to borrow money. The chatty Paula, she claims, never...