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RENO, Nev. (AP) — A judge has been shot at a courthouse in Reno, a police spokesman says.

The Roseland police chief recently knocked on Trish Lane's door and told her that her front-yard parking pad was illegal. "It was the weirdest thing,'' Lane said. K.C. Pocius, the Roseland zoning czar, said the visit to Lane's home is part of an ongoing effort to clean up the town. Town Council Member David Snyder echoed Pocius' comment. He said too many Roseland homeowners have let their properties deteriorate, and something needs to be done to tidy up the town. The problem with Lane's supposed violation is that the town doesn't have an ordinance that prohibits parking in the front...

I was condemned by the governor of New Hampshire last week. It started when the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire invited me to give the dinner speech at their annual convention in Nashua Sept. 28. I spoke about my latest book, "The Ballad of Carl Drega." Roger Talbot, a reporter for the Manchester Union-Leader, took me aside and suggested the controversy now raging over the book in New England may result as much as anything from the cover. It features a painting by Scott Bieser which depicts Boston rebels in a darkened church in the early 1770s, passing out muskets...