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<p>Eight former and current Modesto police officers refused to testify during a hearing for a central figure in the Police Department's gun-sale scandal of the late 1990s, according to a court document.</p> <p>Their silence played a critical role in an arbitrator's April 30 decision ordering Carol Mosconi reinstated as the department's records manager.</p>

Pittsburgh City Council approved zoning changes this morning to prohibit gun sales in some city neighborhoods. Council voted 6-1 with two abstentions to disallow gun sales in all so-called "local neighborhood commercial" districts, including Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill, Liberty Avenue in Bloomfield, Carson Street in the South Side, portions of Wylie Avenue in the Hill District and many other smaller business districts citywide. Licensed gun dealers would still be allowed to locate in several other industrially zoned districts, including Downtown, riverfront districts in the North Side and the Strip District, Penn Avenue in Larimer, the Route 51 corridor and...

Area gun sales rose along with Sept. 11 fears Thursday, March 21, 2002 By LEWIS KAMB SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Seattle residents aren't rushing to take up arms as they did following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, though Washingtonians are still packing on the heat. In the aftermath of last year's terrorist attacks, Puget Sound-area residents armed themselves at a feverish rate, as local police officials and gun shop owners blamed fear and apprehension for soaring concealed weapon permit applications and a surge in gun sales. The local phenomenon mirrored the national trend as Americans looked for personal protection in unsettling...