Word: parkes
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...woman living in the Arizona trailer park where police found Colbern's truck today recalled a next-door neighbor named Steven who wore army fatigues, raised snakes and lizards, and left his trailer so dirty it stank. "He was a jerk. He's a lazy, no-good mama's boy," Maybelle Hertig, 70, told the Associated Press. She recalled that Steven had had packages of ammunition delivered to her trailer and other neighbors...
...lived with Michael Fortier, another Army buddy; although fbi agents have questioned him, they say Fortier is not John Doe No. 2. But Kingman residents mostly express surprise that a man so unobtrusive should now be so notorious. Bob Ragin, the owner of the Canyon West Mobile & RV Park, where McVeigh lived in a blue-and-white 40-ft. trailer for four months in 1993, recalls feeling sorry for McVeigh. He seemed to have few friends, says Ragin. "He struck me as someone just out of the service who was trying to figure out what to do with his life...
...about the buildings' occupants and whether they were armed. In the end, investigators wonder if McVeigh settled on the building in Oklahoma City because it was a "target of convenience" -- closer than Omaha to McVeigh's presumed base of operations in Junction City. Perhaps it was also easier to park in front of the Murrah building than the federal building in Dallas. Whatever the bombers' calculations, investigators on the scene have felt their grief turn to anger and grim resolve. "I'm not too old for this one," says a veteran of the World Trade Center investigation...
Appier, meanwhile, carried a no-hitter into the seventh. But after he struck out Ripken for the second out, manager Bob Boone decided the rest of the season was more important than the rest of the game, and he brought in a reliever. All about the park, you could hear the debate rage over Boone's move. But then Harold Baines of the O's drove the ball deep to center, and everyone stopped to watch as Tom Goodwin made a sensational diving catch...
...slugger Jose Canseco stood outside on the sidewalk and personally greeted fans at Fenway Park, while San Diego Padres players handed out free caps before the game. Despite those efforts-and incentives like cut-rate seats on opening day-major league players returned to work to find tough (and often sparse) crowds waiting. Said Brewers owner Bud Selig, baseball's acting commissioner who canceled last year's World Series: "We got a lot of work ahead of us." --By Kathleen Adams, Lina Lofaro, Belinda Luscombe, Alice Park, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin and Sidney Urquhart