1.   At her trial she testified that she had confessed only so that troopers would stop their questioning, and that her children had simply stopped breathing.

2.   A judge there found that troopers illegally stopped a disproportionate number of minority drivers.

3.   A diligent trooper stopped the prime suspect on unrelated charges -- for driving without a license plate and carrying a concealed weapon.

4.   Alerted to a description of the van and to its license plate number, a New Jersey state trooper stopped the gun traffickers at a bottleneck.

5.   But the troopers did not stop there.

6.   How did it come to pass that he was driving a car without license plates when the Oklahoma state trooper, Charles Hanger, stopped him?

7.   In South Dakota, highway patrol officials said troopers were stopping more speeders and writing more tickets.

8.   Police cars cruised the torn-up areas, and state troopers stopped traffic coming into town.

9.   State troopers stopped Helder three times on his interstate odyssey, for speeding, driving without a license and failing to wear a seat belt.

10.   Suspecting the car had been stolen, the trooper stopped the young men, arrested Cowart on the outstanding warrant and impounded the car.