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Todd Camp and some friends had just marked the 40th anniversary of the police raid on New York's Stonewall Inn by screening a documentary on the historic gay riots and then heading for drinks at the Rainbow Lounge. Camp remembered looking across the bar, packed with gay and some straight couples, and marveling how much times had changed since Stonewall -- the spark that ignited the gay rights movement. And then the police came.

Across from Trish Kinkade's home on a winding, residential road here, a natural gas derrick 140 feet high juts into the sky. Behind her backyard is another hulking derrick, and two more are down the road. "They're everywhere now, you can't get away from them," Kinkade said, crinkling her nose as a chemical smell wafted from a well site. "There's nothing you can do but put up with it."

A man and three children died after they were found at the bottom of a deep pool at a Fort Worth water park. One victim apparently slipped and fell into the pool, and the others died trying to save her. Officials speculated that suction from a pump that pulls water to a waterfall at the park made it impossible for the victims to escape the pool. All four were members of a Chicago church in town for a National Baptist Sunday School convention, authorities said.

This Texas city took account of something that many other cities did not: that a much ballyhooed federal program to put 100,000 more police officers on the beat nationwide would stop paying the costs after just three years. So, soon after signing up for the program, city officials rounded up enough money to make sure the new officers would not just vanish when the three years were up. In fact, they helped pass a half-cent sales tax to hire even more police officers.