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Undercover Oakland, California, police officer Derrick Norfleet, 28, was awarded $60,000 in damages by a jury in November for police brutality. Fellow officers had tried to arrest Norfleet in a 1988 drug incident, believing him to be a civilian suspect.
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With many of its leaders still in jail from their 1980s fund-raising effort–robbing armored cars–the white supremacist Aryan Nations recently began a new money-making operation. The group now sells mail-order candies to people on a private membership list through a firm in Hayden, Idaho, called Intermountain FARE. The best-selling selection, which costs $8.50 plus postage and handling, is the Royal Nut Mix.
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An 18-year-old man who robbed the Zip Trip convenience store in Hutchinson, Kansas, in October was unable to open the electronic cash register, so he decided to take it with him. But in attempting to slash the power cord to the cash register, he cut himself in the face with his knife. He panicked as he was leaving the store, dropped the cash register, decided to abandon it, and was finally trapped in an alley by a woman driving by the store.
