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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: Armed with new information, the FBI is reopening its investigation into one of the most shocking racist incidents of the civil rights movement, the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which killed four children. "It's a crime that has gone unsolved except one local conviction and it remains a sore part of American history that we would like to heal," said Joseph Lewis, FBI special agent in charge in Birmingham. "We feel we have an opportunity to do so this time and we want to take one last shot at it." Since the 1963 attack...
DIED. DON HUTSON, 84, fleet-footed Green Bay Packers receiver; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The "Alabama Antelope" held the record for career touchdown receptions (99) for four decades...
Croyle played college football for Alabama's legendary Bear Bryant and told him he wanted to turn pro to raise money to help children. Bryant replied, "Don't play pro football unless you're willing to marry it." Croyle started a home for abused and abandoned children, and has helped more than 1,000 boys and girls since...
Outside, in the impenetrable Alabama night, nobody had bothered with a protest...
...execution chambers, even the most antiseptic, stand as silent, smirking answers that blanch the irony out of St. Paul's question "O Death, where is thy sting?" Death comes in several varieties. It can be incongruously vibrant like "Yellow Mama," the electric chair in Alabama used last week for the execution of ex-Klansman Henry Hays. Or death can have the rustic decrepitude of the gallows in Delaware, which remains in operation. But on every chamber hang the words inscribed in Dante's Inferno: "Abandon all hope you who enter here...