11.   Other detainees face a variety of charges, including traffic offenses and identification fraud, or are being held as material witnesses.

12.   Possession of small amounts for personal use is only a misdemeanor analogous to a traffic offense.

13.   Sheriffs must register sex offenders, fight domestic violence and track the race of drivers stopped for traffic offenses.

14.   Some had their license revoked for drunk driving or other traffic offenses.

15.   While playing eight seasons with the Sonics, Kemp has not had any trouble with the law, outside of numerous traffic offenses.

16.   Phoenix Suns forward Cliff Robinson pleaded innocent on Thursday to charges of driving under the influence and two traffic offenses.

17.   A Maryland state official said Wednesday that one of the hijackers had been stopped by a state trooper for a traffic offense shortly before the hijackings.

18.   A second decree granted amnesty to those convicted of crimes such as military desertion, traffic offenses and tax evasion, Al-Baath said.

19.   A soldier shot himself outside a police precinct office and left a note saying he was fed up with getting tickets for traffic offenses, police said.

20.   Bureaucratic laws and minor traffic offenses are bypassed with a gift or the equivalent of a few dollars, a habit dating back centuries in the region.