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The article reports on the role of Municipal Cooperation Department of Fort Worth, Texas in curbing the activities of gangsters. It is stated that as a precautionary measure and for civil safety, the municipality of Forth Worth will be filing law suits against the gang members to bar them from gathering on streets and other public areas.

Presents news briefs in the United States as of April 9, 2000. Conviction of Jody Diane Gibson who was accused of running a high-priced prostitution ring; Disaster aid given to Forth Worth, Texas; Denial of a request by Timothy J. McVeigh, who was sentenced to death for the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Informs about the execution of Ronald Allridge, the man who killed Carla McMillen at a restaurant in Fort Worth in 1985, on June 8, 1995. Rejection of his final appeal of innocence by the US Supreme Court.

Focuses on the lawsuit that Kent Waldrep filed against Texas Christian University seeking workers' compensation for an injury he suffered in a football game in 1974. The 1997 ruling from a jury in Texas against Waldrep; Why Waldrep and lawyer Donald Loria believe that a college football player should be regarded as an employee; Whether college athletes should be redefined as a labor force entitled to basic employee rights.

Reports on the questioning of potential jurors in Fort Worth, Texas, in the case of former Naval Academy student Diane Zamora, who was charged with the bludgeoning and shooting death of 16-year-old Adrianne Jones and Zamora's ex-finance, David Graham. When the charges were made against Zamora; Comments from John Linebarger, a lawyer for the former student; Detailed information on the case.

Reports about a jury ruling that Kent Walderp, a former Texas Christian University athlete paralyzed during a football game, was not an employee of the school and therefore was not entitled to worker's compensation benefits for his injury. Far-reaching implications of the case; Arguments by Walderp and his lawyers in the trials.