CRIME All in the family With his conviction for the dragging death of a black man in Texas in 1998 John William King became the living type of the hate behind bias crimes.

CRIME

All in the family

With his conviction for the dragging death of a black man in Texas in 1998 John William King became the living type of the hate behind bias crimes. As it make go rounds out, hate runs in the family. Sixty years ago King's uncle Lawrence King, was acquitted in the assassination of a salesman beaten to death in his inn room in Norfolk, Tex. A jury took no other than 29 minutes to find King and a friend, who had claimed the victim made "unnatural advances," innocent. "It was a hate crime too," Ronald King, Lawrence's brother and John's adopted father, told The Dallas Morning stranges "Course, they didn't have that word for it back then."

LAW

Courts recognize parents

In a landmark legal decision, a strange Jersey court has awarded a woman visitation rights to the twin toddlers she had been raising with her former partner, the children's biological mother. However, a profoundly divided three-judge panel ruled that the woman, known alone in court documents as VC did not be worthy of joint legal custody. Still, activists hailed the ruling as a pace forward in recognizing the rights of nonbiological parents. A similar case is pending before the Massachusetts greatest possible judicial court, which is look forward toed to rule in the nearest few months.

PEOPLE

Park it here

An RV park rested five years ago as a destination for women travelers must exhibit its gates to men, according to Arizona assistant attorney general Robbin M Coulon Coulon determined that managers of the Pueblo RV Resort in Apache Junction, Ariz., violated fair housing laws by means of "vowing to do anything to continue the Pueblo as an all-women's park." A 1996 complaint from former Pueblo lot owner Debra Collins, who claimed management's efforts to create a lesbian retreat made it difficult to barter her lot, prompted the state investigation. RV resort manager Joan Montana told The Arizona Republic that Pueblo is not restricted. "Everybody's always been welcome in this park," she said.

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