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| Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:00:00 EST Oil surges again |
| Remember the good old days when oil was trading for $50 a barrel? |
| Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:00:00 EST Conviction in civil rights killings |
| Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was found guilty today of three counts of manslaughter by a jury in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Miss. The 80-year-old former sawmill operator and preacher was prosecuted by the state of Mississippi for masterminding the slayings of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner [Trying times]. The murders were a pivotal moment of the civil rights movement that riveted the nation and galvanized the federal government into action. The jury reached the verdict on the second day of deliberations, exactly 41 years from when the killings took place on June 21, 1964. |
| Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:00:00 EST A new look at old crimes |
| The Killen trial is the latest in a string of court cases that have taken place across the South over the last decade that take a fresh look at racially motivated attacks in the 1950s and 1960s. It's a sign of a budding maturity of the South resulting from the gains of the civil rights movement, increased political power for blacks and younger whites with progressive values, says John Dittmer, a historian and author of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. "Mississippi still has a long way to go," says Dittmer, who taught at Tougaloo College in the state from 1967 to 1979. "But things have changed. It's a start." |
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| Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:43:18 EDT Scout found by volunteers after 4 days |
| The 11-year-old boy missing for four days in rugged terrain of northeast Utah was today found cold and thirsty, but alive by two volunteer searchers on horseback. "A little dehydrated, a little weak, but other than that, he's currently in very good health," Summit County Sheriff David Edmunds told reporters. |
| Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:17:22 EDT Supermarket chain slashing 20,000 jobs |
| Bankrupt grocery chain Winn-Dixie said Tuesday it would close about a third of its 913 stores and cut 22,000 jobs as part of a plan to restructure and emerge from bankruptcy. |
| Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:41:35 EDT Top Democrat apologizes for Gitmo remarks |
| The Senate's No. 2 Democrat apologized Thursday for remarks comparing the treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to methods used by the Nazis, Soviets and other repressive regimes. |
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