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3frDEC20l99g)A7 www.postnet.com ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH NEWS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1998 Bill from Paula Jones' first attorneys is greater than settlement amount Minnesota town clears streets after snowfall iy A i jj I i sri v. Ulii 1 I I iTJ Si A 1 Jfyf 'Hi' J) Last month, Jones, with new lawyers, accepted an $850,000 settlement with no apology and no admission of wrongdoing though she said that was her major goal when she filed her lawsuit in 1994. Cammarata and Davis said on Friday that their bill eventually ran to more than the amount of the settlement. "The amount of the attorney's fee awarded to counsel is not limited to the amount of the compromise or settlement" under Arkansas law, the lawyers said.

Jones claimed that Clinton exposed himself to her in a Little Rock hotel room in 1991 when he was Arkansas governor and she was a state employee. Clinton denied the allegation. Lawyers ask federal judge for help in getting i paid nearly $875,000 The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Paula Jones' original legal team told a federal judge Friday that their for-mer client owes them nearly $25,000 more than the settlement she is due from President Bill Clinton. 1 Joseph Cammarata and Gilbert Davis said U.S.

District Judge Sus-iart Webber Wright promised them reasonable attorney's fees "for their zealous effective representation" in Jones' sexual against 'the president. 2 1 Their bill totals $874,571.36 includes 'time charged "for calls to 44 The amount of the attorney's fee awarded to counsel is not limited to the amount of the compromise or settlement Joseph Cammarata and Gilbert Davis, Paula Jones' original attorneys Three men clear snow near an alley in Virginia, after a storm left about seven inches on the area Friday. Duluth. Much colder weather is expected to sweep across the upper Midwest this weekend. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The town is about 50 miles north of carriers is being investigated after complaints The motion Friday said Jones agreed to pay the attorneys $250 an hour.

Cammarata billed for 2,074 hours in the 3'2-year case and Davis 1,367. The balance was billed to various assistants. The lawyers also claimed expenses of $29,589.26 and said $27.25 had been paid. Wright dismissed Jones' lawsuit in April, ruling that even if the boorish behavior she claimed were true, she had not proved that Clinton had hindered her job advancement or created a hostile work environment. The lawsuit, which led to revelations that Clinton had an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, came to an end when the 8th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed Jones' appeal after she agreed to a settlement. 5 Eleven babies were ejected, resulting in injuries. The Kolcraft seat has two types of handles, a standard handle and a curved handle called a smart handle. Two-thirds of the complaints were about the smart handles. There were 37 complaints from parents involving the Cosco seats, including eight ejections and nine injuries.

Calls seeking comment from Cosco were referred to John Reyn Cam- acknowledged this year that he and Davis consulted Ken-ineth W. Starr about presidential immunity in the months before Starr was named Whitewater special prosecutor. The lawyers also charged for talking with reporters. Cammarata and Davis took Jones' case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled last year that Clinton was not immune from civil lawsuits while holding office.

The pair bowed out last summer after Jones rejected a settlement that included $700,000 and a vague apology from the president. Shortly after leaving the case, they filed an $800,000 hen against Jones for the work they had done before July 31, 1997. I. "if to kill husband unraveled PUV olds, an executive vice president, who was unavailable. Kolcraft was cooperating with the government on the investigation, the company said in a statement.

Earlier this year, Evenflo Co. recalled 800,000 of its combination infant carrier-car seats because of a faulty handle. When the seat was used as a carrier outside of a car, the locking mechanism on the handle could slip, flip the seat forward and toss the baby on the ground. Mine officials had received vague threats from a caller with a low, possibly female voice. Layoffs were rumored at the mine.

"We believe that Cheri Trover made some phone calls that someone from the coal company might end up paying for the layoffs in some way," Rozier said. Trover also told neighbors she had seen a man wearing coveralls, cowboy boots and wire-rim glasses near their house. It was the same description she later gave of the intruder. Police say she knew little about weapons. She had mistakenly loaded the handgun she had taken from Riley's house with rifle bullets, which misfired, police say.

John's wounds were only superficial. Then she found John's 6-inch hunting knife and killed him in the kitchen, according to police. They say she faked signs of a struggle, dragging her husband's 6-foot-tall body down to the basement. She wiped the blood off the gun and returned it to Riley's house, then drove off in the couple's pickup, police say. In the southern outskirts of town, she stripped naked and set fire to her clothes, the cowboy boots and coveralls in the truck, police said.

Police say that as the truck burned, she fled into a field and hid in a drainage culvert. A passing motorist quickly put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher, preserving the evidence. She emerged when police arrived at about 5:30 a.m., and authorities launched a search for the intruder. A sexual assault test at the hospital was inconclusive. Police noticed that cigar burns on Trover's back appeared to be self-inflicted.

The details she offered were confusing. Trover went to a friend's ranch west of town. When Riley called Sunday afternoon to tell her police had found the gun, she asked for a half-hour to herself. She went upstairs, found a rifle in a master bedroom, locked herself in an adjoining bathroom, and shot herself. "Something happened," the Rev.

Tom Ogg said at the memorial service for the couple. "Most everybody who knew them said, 'This is not the person we Safely of infant The Associated Press WASHINGTON The government has begun an investigation into the safety of nearly 900,000 infant carrier-car seats because of complaints that the seat's handle can unlatch suddenly and dump babies on the ground. The seats are the Arriva and Turn-About models, made by Cosco Inc. from 1995 through this year; and the Infant Rider, made 9 nwi the blind. Finally, there are the drivers.

Encounter Lagos in rush hour particularly on secondary roads on the Lagos4 mainland, far from the wealthy enclaves on Ikoyi and Victoria islands with their relatively genteel streets and discover Nigerian drivers at their white-knuckle worst. Hyperaggressive motorists combine with crowded streets to create automotive mayhem. Drivers go off the roads, straddle sewer ditches and weave through oncoming traffic, all the while twisting among everyone else doing the same thing. It can take 30 minutes to go 30 feet. Then again, some days there are no problems at all.

"In Lagos, it happens in one Somide says. "You go through a place and it's fine, and five minutes later there's a traffic jam. But just as Nigeria's military regime is finally giving way to civilian rule, so Lagos go-slows have mellowed. Gone are the days when assassins took advantage of a traffic jam to gun down a military ruler, as coup-plotters did in 1976, and when monstrous potholes some 25-feet-long and a foot deep were ubiquitous. Where go-slows used to appear at all hours, now it's just most hours.

These days, the traffic is just terrible. That, they insist in Lagos, is an improvement. by Kolcraft Enterprises from 1996 through this year, according to records at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. About 460,000 of the Cosco seats and 415,000 of the Kolcraft seats were made in those years. The safety agency received 82 complaints from parents that the Infant Rider carry handle unlatched suddenly while they were carrying infants in the Kolcraft seats, an agency document said.

Alleged plot Woman's children said she was intruder; gun was found across strpct The Associated press GILLETTE, Wyo. Cheryl and John Trover returned home from a Friday night out with friends. John got ready for bed. Cheryl had other plans, police say. Cheryl Trover, a high school math teacher, wife and 37-year-old mother of two, had murder on her mind, authorities say.

She had plotted her moves for months, and this was the night. It was to be her husband's last, they say. Police say that pulling on a ski mask, she disguised her voice and bound her son and daughter with rope. She shot her husband twice, then slit his throat and stabbed him in the heart with his own hunting knife, authorities claim. Trover later told police how she had fled from a dark-skinned intruder, how she had run naked and terrified into the cold night.

But investigators contend that Cheryl Trover's plans went wrong. She'd be dead herself within 48 hours, unable, police say, to live with the mistakes she had made. Police say the children, ages 13 and 11, recognized the person who tied them up as their mother and thought at the time she "was playing a game with them. And police quickly found the murder weapon in the house across the street, the house that held the secrets she had tried to protect. It was the house of Cheryl Trover's principal and her lover for the past four years.

"It as close to a murder mys tery and probably better written than any I've read in a long time, said Sgt. Steve Rozier, the lead investigator in the case. Gillette is a coal mining town of about 17,000 people, isolated on the barren, rolling prairie of northeast ern Wyoming off Interstate 90. It depends on ranching and rich, low-sulfur coal deposits. Vast trains export the product of im mense open-pit mines such as Ea gle where John Trover, 43, worked as an accountant.

Gillette has seen steady growth POST-DISPATCH Prep sports Show THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Nigerian vendor runs along side a commuter in Lagos after selling the driver an electronics item last month. Nigeria's largest city is famous for its traffic jams and street hawkers. TMcjams are way of life in Nigerian city along with Wyoming's coal industry over the past 25 years, drawing blue-collar residents of eastern states whose coal industries have lagged. The Trovers seemed so happy. There seemed to be no trouble not in the 14 years they were married, not even when they socialized at a neighborhood sports bar on Dec.

4, the night Trover was killed. Leslie Flocchini knew the Trovers for 11 years. Less than two weeks before the murder, she saw them at a junior high girls basketball game. "Cheri and John sat right beside us and we talked the entire time and made jokes and laughed. And I can still remember John rubbing Cheri's shoulder," Flocchini said.

"They were very affectionate to one another in public," she said. Like her children, Cheryl Trover was athletic. Lean and muscular with long, dark hair, she lifted weights religiously at a stylish, warehouse-sized gym where she and her husband often played rac-quetball. Speakers at a memorial service on Thursday described her as a favorite of many students at Campbell County High School. John Trover's co-workers remembered a kind, family-loving man who could take a joke.

"John wasn't much of a hunter, and we talked him into shooting sporting clays one time," co-worker Murphy Love said. "He shot four out of 100. Police had a theory within hours. They heard whispers that Cheryl Trover was involved with principal John Riley. The Trovers had a key to Riley's house.

Riley, who was divorced, often had Christmas dinner with the Trovers, either at his house or theirs. Police believe Cheryl Trover feared a divorce would cost her custody of Torrey, 13, and Jackson, 11. John Trover had gained custody of his daughter Brooklin, 18, when he divorced his first wife. Riley admitted to the affair and resigned his job on Tuesday. He apparently was unaware of her scheme, police said.

The plot may have begun up to six months ago, when Cheryl Trover learned Riley would be out of town the weekend of Dec. 4. In recent weeks, Eagle Butte A challenge. In this overcrowded city of 10 million people, with its battered streets and fourth-rate policing, the infamous traffic jams or "go-slows" as Nigerians call them are as much a part of life as military rulers. Go-slows are famous for materializing without warning, lasting for miles and disappearing abruptly.

When they appear, they create a theater of traffic, right down to a symphonic accompaniment of blaring horns. First come the peddlers: hordes of teen-age boys stalking stalled cars and selling everything imaginable. They have cold beer, toilet brushes, school pads, bread, videotapes, pens, dish towels, air fresheners, dinosaur shaped breakfast cereal, file folders, maps, candy. One boy sells desktop electric organs, shuffling in the suffocating equatorial heat with a battery-powered model programmed to play "Jingle Bells over and over again. Make, eye contact and you'll regret it.

Hopeful hawkers will stand at car windows for minutes on end, silently displaying their wares, and will even jog alongside as drivers lurch forward. Then the beggars arrive. In a country where the social security net is tattered beyond repair, begging in Lagos traffic is the only way to survive for thousands of people. Streets jammed with cars are also often filled with people who have slipped through society's cracks: the elderly, orphans, polio victims, Nothing moves for hours in Lagos except vendors who descend on motorists The Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria On the bad days, driving in Lagos is like maneuvering through a nightmare. Traffic jams can last for hours, longhorn cattle occasionally wander across freeways, and armies of beggars descend on drivers trapped in, stifling cars.

Buying gasoline can require a three-day Vmt in line and the air is suffused with the stench of car fumes. But at least it's not like it used to be. must have noticed that if better on the roads now," insists Ambrose Somide at Lagos' Ray Power radio station. I Somide directed a team of traffic reporters until skyrocketing prices for black market gasoline made it too expensive to send them out. Anyway, he says, the traffic has improved.

"It's fairly OK, compared to a couple of years ago," he says. He ticks off the improvements: repaired roads, less congestion from government offices moving out of town, more people taking buses because of gas shortages. Then he changes his mind: "It's better than it was, but it's still bad." Driving in Lagos is a chore and a Scoreboard: Recapping how the top 20 large schools and top 10 small schools fared and where they now rank. The Post-Dispatch Prep Sports Show. Sponsored by: FAMOUSBARR 1.