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In Mark Twain's hometown, mischief hits new highs

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20051214
Author:CHRISTOPHER LEONARD, Associated Press Writer

CHRISTOPHER LEONARD, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
12-14-2005
Dateline: HANNIBAL, Missouri
Apart from some murder and grave-robbing in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," Mark Twain immortalized his hometown of Hannibal as a sleepy place where life rolls by as slowly as a barge going down the Mississippi. But that's pure fiction nowadays.

Drugs and a lack of jobs have brought a boom in armed robbery and theft to this community of 18,000 that calls itself "America's Hometown."

Robberies per year nearly quadrupled between 2000 and 2004 to 26, and are running at about the same level this year ...

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