April warmth ranking hits near record global second place
The National Climatic Data Center said April was the second warmest on record worldwide and warmer and drier than usual for much of the United States. In the United States the average April temperature was 54.6F in the 48 states, 2.6F above long term norms.
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Accused priest found hanged in Maryland facility
SILVER SPRING, Md. A priest accused of sexual misconduct was found hanged at St Luke Institute in suburban Washington. Rev Alfred J Bietighofer, 64, had been sent for psychiatric evaluation after resigning from St Andrew Parish in Bridgeport Conn. Police reported the death as an apparent suicide amid ongoing abuse allegations.
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Ex-wife says Klansman admitted bombing
Willadean Brogdon testified at the murder trial of Bobby Cherry that he claimed to have planted the bomb under the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church stairs and lit the fuse the night before the 1963 church bombing. The attack killed four girls and became the Civil Rights era’s deadliest act of violence.
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Bobby Frank Cherry
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Ku Klux Klansmen In Planting the Bomb At the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
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