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In March a federal judge in Alabama ruled in favor of the Eastwood Texaco station on Montclair Road in Birmingham, which had sued the 11-nation oil cartel OPEC. Judge Charles Weiner said the organization had violated U.S. antitrust law by reducing its oil production (a favorite method of raising prices) and forbade it from doing so again for a period of one year.
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According to WLKY TV in Louisville, police trying to clear out backlogged cases on March 26 arrested 14-year-old student Leanndra Taylor in the middle of classes, acting on a 1995 warrant that accused her of shoplifting a 59-cent candy bar.
Earlier this year fire stations in Columbia, Tennessee, and Tampa, Florida, were found in violation of local fire codes for lacking smoke detectors and other equipment….In March a careless cigarette smoker in a fire engine set the vehicle’s seats ablaze in Kushima, Japan….And that same month defective wiring started a conflagration in the Bethells Beach fire station in Auckland, New Zealand; the building burned to the ground as firefighters watched helplessly (all their equipment was inside).
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