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...police force of 70 officers is at half the authorized strength because of layoffs. Its newest patrol car is nearly five years old. Many cars no longer have functioning two-way radios for lack of repair funds, and some cops have had to buy their own. There is no money to hire recruits, and the average age of the force is up to a doddering 46 1/2 years. "We just don't have the money and the personnel to keep the peace," sighs Inspector Lawrence Brewer, a veteran of nearly 22 years in the department. "There are guys literally jumping...
...offenders are overwhelmingly male, but girls too are capable of vicious crimes. In Escondido, Calif., a 16-year-old girl and three teenage boys went on an arson spree last March. The group set four fires at three schools, causing damage that will cost more than $1 million to repair. A 16-year-old girl from Cape Cod, Mass., who had been drinking stabbed her male cousin, severely injuring...
...month after the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the drive to repair the damage has a long way to go. Fortunately, Mother Nature herself is lending a hand...
...retiring the old-fashioned bagged-powder firing system. Refitting the ships with 320 Tomahawk cruise missiles apiece, as the Navy once proposed, would cost more than $1 billion a vessel, an unlikely expenditure at a time of shrinking Pentagon budgets. But if the damage to the Iowa is beyond repair, the Navy may have no choice but to replace the burned- out turret with a cruise-missile loader -- or retire the old battlewagon once...
...even as NWA geared up for battle, the appearance of unity began to fade. Minnesota Democrat James Oberstar, chairman of the House aviation subcommittee, met with Davis last week and later said the billionaire's promise to build a major airline-repair center in Minnesota makes the bid "a very attractive offer." But Davis will need all his charm and cash to persuade the defiant Northwesterners...