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Headstones were unveiled Saturday for three Confederate veterans whose graves had gone unmarked for more than century. The headstones for Sgt. H.B. Cox of the North Carolina infantry, as well as privates J.M. Evans and Rufus Yeargin, both of the South Carolina Volunteer infantry, were dedicated at a Confederate memorial service at the old...
Live Oak — A group of people displaying Confederate flags on private property across the street from Suwannee High School, within view of students, caused a disturbance on campus this morning, SHS principal Ted Roush said. It is not yet clear if the group displaying the flags in the parking lot of Johnson’s Radio...
A new council created by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was not designed to act as kingmaker if cancer forces the charismatic leftist leader to step down, one member said Chavez’s announcement of the nine-member Council of State last week prompted speculation it was meant to prepare for such a scenario and mediate between political...
A St. Louis man is behind bars after police say he stole a horse-drawn carriage and assaulted the driver and the horse. It happened late Tuesday night near 8th and Chestnut. A driver and horse from St. Louis Carriage Company were the victims. Jenny Holzum is a spokeswoman for the company. She said, “I’m...
- In a somber, reflective ceremony, dozens of descendants of Southern troops gathered on the Battery in Charleston to mark Confederate Memorial Day in the state where the Civil War began. With Fort Sumter in the distance, a wreath was laid Thursday in memory of the Southern defenders of Charleston. About three dozen people...
A Taiwanese woman jailed in the death of her 4-year-old daughter after she sent an online message asking how to dispose of the body has lost the final appeal of her eight-year prison sentence. Taiwan’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s decision against Lee Yu-chan, who was found guilty of failing to...
A white power activist campaigning to be the next Bonner County sheriff hosted a cross burning last week with fellow Ku Klux Klan members and is defending the ceremony as a historic Christian ritual. Shaun Winkler, 33, said mainstream society misses the point about cross-lighting rituals, seeing them only as a symbol of hate...
GRAHAM — The Colonel Charles F. Fisher Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans will host an observance of Confederate Memorial Day on Court Square on Saturday. The event will begin at 9 a.m. by parading from the County Courthouse to lay a wreath at the memorial wall at the Criminal Courts Building. This...
A century and a half after these men fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, another group of men remembered them Saturday when the Sons of Confederate Veterans held a memorial on the UNC campus. The short service, with three uniformed soldiers and a lone trumpeter, drew 10 people to the Confederate War...
EDEN, N.C. — Members of the Ku Klux Klan apparently held a gathering at the site of a former Sonic Drive-In Tuesday evening in Eden. The Greensboro News & Record reported that five Klan members dressed in white robes waved signs at the vacant lot at 104 E. Harris Place. The paper reported that police...
