Blacks Kentucky

The FBI joined the investigation Wednesday into the police slaying of a black teen-ager that touched off a rampage by about 200 blacks. The white officer who shot Antonio Sullivan in the head said his gun went off accidentally after he and four other officers tried to arrest the 18-year-old as he emerged from a closet at his girlfriend's house. Residents of the mostly black neighborhood near downtown said the shooting was inevitable and representative of routine racial abuse by police.

A rusty wire fence separating poorly tended graves for blacks from nicely kept graves for whites must come down, says a judge, who also has ordered an end to 125 years of unequal upkeep in private Ryder Cemetery. Weeds, trash and brambles have overrun the more than 200 black graves. For more than 10 years, blacks willing to buy the $200 plots have been buried on the well-tended side. But most blacks say they want to be buried near relatives on the other side.

A rusty wire fence separating poorly tended graves for blacks from nicely kept graves for whites must come down, says a judge, who also has ordered an end to 125 years of unequal upkeep in private Ryder Cemetery. Weeds, trash and brambles have overrun the more than 200 black graves. For more than 10 years, blacks willing to buy the $200 plots have been buried on the well-tended side. But most blacks say they want to be buried near relatives on the other side.

The FBI joined the investigation Wednesday into the police slaying of a black teen-ager that touched off a rampage by about 200 blacks. The white officer who shot Antonio Sullivan in the head said his gun went off accidentally after he and four other officers tried to arrest the 18-year-old as he emerged from a closet at his girlfriend's house. Residents of the mostly black neighborhood near downtown said the shooting was inevitable and representative of routine racial abuse by police.