The contents of the letter left George Coppock trembling with fear and anger. "We have received a report that Michael has possibly been abused," the curt note from the Arizona Department of Economic Security started. Coppock recalls feeling helpless when he read those words three years ago. "Here you are...
If her four grandchildren ever come back from Nebraska, Lynette will be ready. She keeps a blue dirt bike propped against the wall of the back porch, and she has plastic-covered children's books, like Peter and the Wolf and Smokey Bear, stacked in one corner of her living room. The...
If you thought the Phoenix Cardinals were woeful last season, you should talk to a handful of Tempe residents about the off-season--specifically, the night of May 7. Nearly three months after two Cardinal players, Eric Hill and Willie Williams, allegedly harassed a restaurant crowd and a college professor, bitterness lingers...
Seven-year-old Tina Harris looked up at her mother and blurted out the truth. "You told me if I ever was afraid to do anything, if I didn't want to, I didn't have to," Heidi Harris says her daughter told her on that early evening of April 14, 1987. Tina told...
It's long been argued that Texas boasts more psychos per capita than any other state in the union. A short roll call of Texas rockers goes a long way toward proving that claim. First off, there's the Sir Douglas Quintet, a partly Hispanic San Antonio act that pretended to be...
LATE SUNDAY NIGHT--Finally, it is over. In Washington, D.C., it is past 2 a.m. This is the hour for stealth; a perilous period when muggers rule the streets. It's a time for the criminal class to prevail and congressional pay raises to be voted. The faces of the senators are...
BRENDA CAYMEN had known for a long time, with some part of her mind, that Rob Roemhildt was going to die. It is the sort of brutal fact that 35-year-olds are forced to accept about their best friends these days, when their best friends have AIDS. What she hadn't expected...
Tim Miller grew up in Whittier, California, the hometown of Richard Nixon. He became an activist early. In 1974, still in high school, he wrote a letter to the then-President saying, "As a son of Whittier, I am ashamed and I hope you will leave office." "That he actually did...
