Trial date set in 1963 Sixteenth Street bombing case
The last trial in the 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing shifted to May 6 due to a state moratorium on jury trials. Bobby Frank Cherry, a former Ku Klux Klansman, faces trial for the murder of four Black girls. Jefferson County funds support continuing criminal trials as statewide court activity slows.
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Birmingham
Ala
Bobby Frank Cherry
James Garrett
Roy Moore
Jefferson County
Cherry
Sixteenth Street
Thomas Blanton Jr
Robert
Bob” Chambliss
Herman Cash
Freight train ran red light before deadly California wreck
Investigators say the Burlington Northern freight train ran a red light moments before the Placentia collision with a Metrolink commuter train during morning rush hour. Two people died and more than 260 were injured as passengers were thrown from seats and escaped via windows.
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Placentia
Calif
Burlington Northern
National Transportation Safety Board
Marion Blakey
Metrolink
Blakey
Stuntmen say Blake solicited them to kill wife
Two Baretta stuntmen expected to testify that actor Robert Blake tried to hire them to murder his wife Benny Lee Bakley. Attorneys say witnesses may face credibility questions while Blake awaits murder trial charges. In Dallas, John Battaglia is convicted of capital murder in the death of his two daughters as their mother listened on the phone.
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Blake
Wife
Los Angeles
Robert Blake
McLarty Ana Xonaia
Duffy
Hambleton
Harland Braun
Braun
McLarty and
Benny Lee Bakley
Texas
Dallas
John Battaglia
Faith
Liberty
Mary Jean Pearle
Fed reports recovery on track with mixed regional signals
The Federal Reserve says the US economy is on track to recover from recession with solid retail sales brisk housing activity and improving factory activity in March and early April. Chair Alan Greenspan notes overall tone positive though some regions report slower pace or mixed activity with Boston Cleveland Kansas City and Dallas citing slower gains and ongoing weakness. The regional survey will inform May policy meetings as economists expect rates to remain at four-decade lows.
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Washington
Fed
Boston
Cleveland
Kansas City
Dallas
Abstinence programs extended by House panel
A House Commerce Committee vote extended the abstinence only program for five years 35-17 amid Democrat push for abstinence-plus options. Chairman Billy Tauzin urged states can refuse funding if they dislike the restricted aid. Democrats favored broader sex education stressing abstinence as best choice.
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House Commerce Committee
Committee
Billy Tauzin
Rla
Catholic leaders back plan to defrock priests but reject zero tolerance
Vatican meeting ends with American church endorsing a process to remove priests guilty of serial abuse of minors while stopping short of a blanket zero tolerance policy. Local bishops would decide for non notorious cases, with June bishops’ meeting to firm policy. The panel stressed reporting to civil authorities remains undecided amid ongoing tensions.
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Vatican City
Vatican
U.S
Dallas
Theodore McCarrick
Washington
John Paul II
Wilton Gregory
Belleville
Illinois
James Francis
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