Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When Alabama churches started going up in flame in February 2006, nightmare visions of marauding Ku Klux Klansmen and Satanists, - the first attacking black churches, the second, white churches - sped through the popular imagination. Both groups have been active in Alabama history; and so the devout stood vigil through the night to guard their places of worship from white-robed or otherwise malevolently attired assailants. However, on Monday afternoon, when the perpetrators of the fires appeared in court for sentencing, they were dressed in orange jumpsuits and they claimed to have no racist or devilish designs on the good churchfolk...
...Nine churches in all would be torched in rural Alabama: five near Birmingham and four near the Mississippi line. The first five were burned on one night and four nights later Cloyd and Moseley set fire to four more churches to divert law enforcement. Two firefighters were injured battling the blazes. The young men were found after a massive manhunt tracked a mysterious SUV that left tracks from Cloyd?s specially purchased off-road tires. U.S. District Judge David Proctor sentenced Cloyd and Moseley to eight years and 11 months; DeBusk got seven years. The trio have been ordered...
...legal proceedings had divided Alabama, with law enforcement demanding justice and clergymen from the victimized churches pleading for mercy and forgiveness. One preacher, the Rev. Walter Hawkins, spoke in court with, he said, a "spirit of forgiveness. We love them and want them to come and visit us as soon as they finish their sentences." But Bibb County District Attorney Michael Jackson believed that full weight of justice still has to be imposed. The federal government may have exacted its due but Alabama had to get its hands on the trio to serve time under state law. That could mean...
...Appeals, for instance, twice rejected efforts to broaden Lawrence. In 2004, it upheld Florida's law prohibiting gay adoptions by saying the importance of providing for children gives the state the right to set rules for their adoption. And later that year, it ruled that a district judge in Alabama had erred in using Lawrence to strike down the state's prohibition on the sale of sex toys. Only in Massachusetts, with its famous gay marriage decision handed down four months after Lawrence, has a top appeals court sided with plaintiffs seeking to use the decision to void state laws...
...fear and outrage surrounding the death of beloved Fidos and Fifis around the country from contaminated pet food isn't going away. Another recall was announced on Thursday, as officials added dog biscuits made by Sunshine Mills, a company based in Red Bay, Alabama, to the list of retracted products, because of the possibility it may have used contaminated wheat gluten. And Menu Foods Ltd. - which announced its first recall of 60 million dog and cat food products packaged under various brand names three weeks ago - extended the recall date to foods made between...