A caller reported a man, with his face painted like the Joker from the Batman movies, acting suspiciously at a movie theater. When the police arrived they discovered he had a warrant and the suspect was arrested. Police Arrive On The Scene Police arrested a man wearing “Joker” makeup at a Florida movie theater Wednesday after someone reported […]
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On Civil War Anniversary, Confederate Group Stirs Debate
In 1867, former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest became the first Grand Wizard of a newly formed organization called the Ku Klux Klan. Forrest had been a slave trader before the Civil War; he was also the commanding officer during a battle known as the “Fort Pillow massacre” in Tennessee at which some 300 black Union troops were killed in 1864.
Texas governor shakes up panel probing 2004 execution
Court frees 20 convicted in Mexican massacre
U.N. worker killed in Pakistan kidnap bid
Former Rwandan governor convicted of genocide
A United Nations court convicted a former governor of Rwanda to life in prison for his role in a 1994 genocide that left about 800,000 dead in the central African country. Tharcisse Renzaho was found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The verdict, delivered Tuesday, is the third judgment on charges of genocide delivered this year by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)