I tried your suggestion(Carl Wiedemann <carl.wiedemann@gmail.com>) and have a very interesting update to the issue.

I deleted all of the aliases through the Drupal interface at Site building > User aliases > Delete all aliases.  One at a time I started the rebuilding process, I have Automatic alias in the URL Path settings section of Edit unchecked, so I was able to create the aliases I wanted for each page.

The same problem is occurring with one interesting twist. First of all, when selecting the Home tab on the Primary menu - you are directed to the Home (node/33) page but the Criminal/Traffic <node/81) page is highlighted.  When I select a section below the Home page, no tabs are highlighted.

So in one way I am back at square one.

Is there something missing in this section of css that controls this functionality?  The two sections with #primary-menu ul.menu li.active- are the ones that shut off the functionality of highlighting completely.

#primary-menu ul.menu li.active, 
#primary-menu ul.menu li:hover,
#primary-menu ul.menu li.hover,
#primary-menu ul.menu li:focus,
#primary-menu ul.menu li.hover {
  background: #ad462b;
}

#primary-menu ul.menu li.active a, 
#primary-menu ul.menu li:hover a,
#primary-menu ul.menu li.hover a,
#primary-menu ul.menu li:focus a,
#primary-menu ul.menu li.hover a {
  background: #ad462b;
  color: #fff;
}


#primary-menu ul.menu li.active-trail {
  background: #ad462b;
  color: #fff;
}


#primary-menu ul.menu li.active-trail a {
  background: #ad462b;
  color: #fff;
}

Thank you for all the help so far.
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Best Regards,
James R Stone
fndtn357@gmail.com


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