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DIED. JAMES EARL RAY, 70, criminal who confessed to killing Martin Luther King Jr.; of liver failure caused by chronic hepatitis; in Nashville, Tenn. After an international manhunt following the assassination, Ray was captured in England. Three days after pleading guilty to the killing, Ray performed one of criminology's most famous about-faces, protesting his innocence for the remainder of his 99-year sentence. His prison term was marked by botched jailbreaks and his steady insistence that he had only been the fall guy in a larger conspiracy to slay King, a claim that received the unlikely backing...
...parents moved to Sound View to escape the more "densely populated" Harlem. Evans says he now feels a tremendous sense of loyalty to Sound View, what he calls his "home sweet home," to childhood friends and early basketball teammates. They were the kids on the block who played "manhunt" and "hot peas and butter" with him, some of whom later became his buddies, taking teenage trips to movies and clubs throughoutthe city...
MURPHY, North Carolina: They?re calling off some of the bloodhounds in the woods up in the Smoky Mountains, as the FBI and ATF scale down their search for Alabama abortion-clinic bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph. The reason is that in its fourth week, the nature of the manhunt is changing: ?As much as they like to talk about how vast and dense those woods are, chances are that if Rudolph were hiding in a cave or behind some trees they would have found him by now,? says TIME correspondent Greg Fulton...
...focus of the manhunt is moving away from combing the woods to searching for like-minded people who may have helped Rudolph escape the dragnet. ?Right now they?re out showing photos of people who they suspect might have helped, or are currently helping Rudolph,? says Fulton. Of course, the protracted manhunt might have been avoided altogether if the FBI hadn?t broadcast their intention to question Rudolph the night before actually visiting his house ?- a night on which he appears to have been at home watching a video...
...time lawmen arrived in Murphy, however, Rudolph had stopped at the local grocery to stock up on raisins, trail mix and eight packs of flashlight batteries. Then, apparently on foot, he vanished, leading more than 100 federal agents and local officers on a manhunt across rugged terrain right out of the best-selling novel Cold Mountain. Agents of the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms armed themselves with semiautomatic rifles and bulletproof vests as they searched Rudolph's trailer and poked cautiously under neighbors' porches and in their barns. Helicopters clattered overhead, using infrared scanners that...