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...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...
...public had been stunned when the suspects' identities were revealed. "When you actually see who did it," said the Rev. Jim Parker, whose church was destroyed, "it's like pulling the curtain back on the Wizard of Oz." Moseley, a student at Birmingham-Southern College, had formerly participated in missions where churches were built. He had been Student Government President and Vice President of the Honor Society in high school. Cloyd was studying to be a physician?s assistant at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. DeBusk was a theater major on scholarship at Birmingham-Southern College. Said Connie Lawley...
...which is stripping away 1,000 years of Britain's history and the very foundation of all our ancient freedoms, raises my worst fears about who controls TIME these days. My wife's comment was, "Well, they are Americans." Does this, I wonder, say it all? Michael A. Clark, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND...
...walks in 6 2/3 innings—three more than he allowed in five Ivy starts in 2006, when he was named the league’s Pitcher of the Year. Meanwhile, the Crimson hitters were stuck in a malaise at the plate, baffled by Penn rookie lefty Jim Birmingham. Birmingham, despite struggling with his control—including six walks—and topping out in the mid-80’s on the radar gun, owned a no-hitter through seven innings when he was pulled. “He probably threw about 145 pitches...
...four walks in 6 2/3 innings, or three more than he allowed in five Ivy starts in 2006, when he was named the league’s Pitcher of the Year. Meanwhile, the Crimson hitters were stuck in a malaise at the plate, baffled by Penn rookie lefty Jim Birmingham. Birmingham, despite struggling with his control (six walks) and topping out in the mid-80’s on the radar gun, owned a no-hitter through seven innings when he was pulled. “He probably threw about 145 pitches,” Walsh said of Birmingham...