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...Wire got the Memorial Day jump on the competition and galloped to a $70 million gross; Total Recall, the first brawnbuster released last June, beat out its beefy competition. So an early start is helpful. This Memorial Day weekend, Hudson Hawk, with Bruce Willis as a reformed thief forced to commit one last heist, will try to shoulder out Backdraft, director Ron Howard's fireman-buddy epic starring Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro. Maybe those two films will duke it out all summer. Or maybe they will cream each other and leave space for late May's gal-buddy...
...first police thought a thief had murdered Army Specialist Anthony Riggs, who was shot in Detroit within days of his return from the gulf. But then the plot twisted when suspicion fell on Riggs' wife Toni and her brother Michael Cato, who were accused of killing Riggs to collect his $175,000 life insurance policy. Last week Judge Vesta Svenson dismissed the murder charge against Toni Riggs, ruling that Cato's confession could not be used as evidence against her because it violated her Sixth Amendment right to confront her accuser...
Those who frequent the Border Cafe, that trendy Church St. Tex-Mex-Cajun restaurant/watering hole, may love excitement, but not this much excitement. In a terrifying incident this week, a man, attempting to apprehend an alleged beer thief, was stabbed in the back three times, according to eyewitness accounts. Arrest warrants have been issued for both the alleged thief and stabber, and the victim is in stable condition...
Watching the videotape, thinking about the other police-brutality cases -- the alleged fatal choking of a suspected car thief by five of New York City's finest, for example -- Americans felt degrees of wonder, horror or, in some cases, disgust at the news media for undermining the police...
...self-defense. Danger "is something you get used to," says Officer Dennis Rhodes, a 20-year veteran of the L.A.P.D., "but every time you check in for a shift, you don't really know if you're going to go home that night." Two weeks ago, a suspected car thief pointed a 9-mm pistol at Rhodes' partner in the squad car, who then fired a shot at the gunman, forcing him to drop his weapon. "The whole incident took a minute and a half," says Rhodes, "and what raced through my mind was . . . the fact that I was going...