Ga. Sheriff Firings Heighten Racial Unease
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When a spate of black officials were sworn into office this month in Clayton County, it was supposed to be a sign of progress for the historically white, rural county that was the setting for "Gone With The Wind." Then, one of the newly elected black officials made waves only hours after taking office.
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HAMPTON, Ga. -- Jeff Gordon gnawed at his lips, struggling to contain the tears that were so desperate to escape. He wants to make some sense of it all, but that will take time.
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When a spate of black officials were sworn into office this month in Clayton County, it was supposed to be a sign of progress for the historically white, rural county that was the setting for "Gone With The Wind."
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NEW YORK -- Umpires are livid that Major League Baseball has sent investigators to their hometowns, asking neighbors a series of questions that include whether the ump belongs to the Ku Klux Klan.
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By Harry Franklin, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Sep. 21--Four residents have filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction to keep Cusseta-Chattahoochee County from creating a police department.
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A Laotian immigrant said he was  fired on first and racially insulted before he turned his gun  on a group of deer hunters in Wisconsin's North Woods, killing  six and wounding two, police said on Tuesday.
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A sheriff calls for the way prisoners are monitored by police to be improved after a death in custody.
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A series of race-baiting incidents have left some wondering about the display of Halloween ghouls in nooses.
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Robert Henderson was not fired as a state trooper because he belonged to the Ku Klux Klan and another white supremacist group, authorities said. Instead, he was ousted because he could not uphold public trust while participating in such groups, they said.
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Street race that killed eight in southern Md. was one of many held at shifting sites to elude police.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. - A Savannah man went to jail this weekend for impersonating a sheriff's deputy so he could go bowling. Jeffrey Eugene Ferguson, 46, pulled up to a gate at Hunter Army Airfield on Saturday and showed a guard a driver's license that was cracked in half, police said.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 20--PASCAGOULA -- Officials with Pascagoula and Jackson County were surprised and disappointed Tuesday when DuPont announced it had started a controversial chemical process before giving the public a chance to learn more about it.
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Several jurors who convicted a black trash collector in the slaying of a white fashion writer made disparaging racial remarks during deliberations, which at one point became so heated two jurors had to be separated, according to documents filed Tuesday.
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Racial animosity and revenge are among the possible motives in the arson fires in a subdivision in southern Maryland on Dec. 6, a spokesman for federal investigators said Sunday.
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A second man was arrested and at least one more was being sought in suburban Atlanta in connection with the shooting deaths of two police officers.
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A report commissioned following the Caia Park riots in Wrexham says racism is still a problem in the county.
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African Americans voice their protests against the treatment of black males by the criminal justice system.