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...ended that way once before, but after several soap-opera twists, the couple had remarried in 1967.) King lost his TV and radio shows, his job with the Dolphins and his newspaper column. To make ends meet he did some free-lance radio work and later moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, where he was a p.r. man for the local racetrack and did play-by-play for the old World Football League's Shreveport Steamer...
Last week a municipal judge in Shreveport, La., sentenced Ronald Hamilton to four days of community service for torching a Confederate flag outside the city's courthouse last July to protest a monument to Confederate soldiers. Since the city has no ordinance prohibiting flag burning, Hamilton was found guilty of violating a ban on illegal burning. Judge Lee Irvin told Hamilton that if he wanted to burn the flag, he should have sought a permit. Hamilton, who insists his right of free expression was violated, does not accept the judge's explanation. Says he: "The process to get a permit...
...childhood. His father, a heavy- equipment salesman, was killed in a freak road accident three months before Clinton -- originally christened William J. Blythe IV -- was born on Aug. 19, 1946, in the little southwestern Arkansas town of Hope. Five months later, his mother Virginia returned to nursing school in Shreveport, La., to get a degree in anesthesiology, leaving Bill with grandparents who ran a small grocery store. When Bill was four, she returned to Hope and married Roger Clinton, a Buick dealer who moved the family to Hot Springs. Bill's stepfather was an alcoholic who sometimes beat Virginia...
...centerpiece of Beebe's empire was AMI, his company based in Shreveport, La., which invested in banks and thrifts, insurance companies, motels and nursing homes. Beebe and his colleagues at one time or another held control of nearly 40 banks and S & Ls, through which they allegedly made insider "back- scratching" loans to finance one another's high-risk moneymaking schemes. Their tower of debt collapsed in 1986, brought down by the energy bust and tenacious federal investigators. Having pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud in 1988, Beebe, 61, now washes laundry in a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas...
...Beebe's enterprises grew, he reveled in the trappings. He acquired a nine-passenger Hawker Siddeley jet to carry business associates on golfing trips. He took clients duck hunting in the Louisiana marshes on a lavish two- story barge. In Shreveport, he built a $1 million home for his family, as well as a gleaming seven-story office building...