1.   It was, said police, an unprovoked attack.

2.   Joseph was immediately a suspect because he knew where the husband lived, said police spokesman Chris Willett.

3.   A cardboard box lay on the ground nearby, said police, who believed he was about to attack his next victim.

4.   Additional changes, said one senior police official, will involve scaling back the number of officers assigned to checkpoints around the city.

5.   Bryant also said police have done a better job recently protecting his store.

6.   Coleman was found face down in the driveway of the Highland neighborhood in southwest Rochester, an urban middle-class area, said police.

7.   Commuters alerted plainclothes transit police officers that someone in the station had a gun, said police spokesman Ralph St.

8.   Cormier said police had been called to the home several times before Thanksgiving but saw nothing earlier that would warrant an investigation.

9.   Even after the alleged attack, said police, he told another of the five girls that he would take her to Planned Parenthood, apparently for birth control.

10.   Most residents, businesspeople and others I spoke with said police operations and neighborhood organizing efforts have definitely helped.