Vandalism Ohio

A Ku Klux Klan official said Monday that he wants everyone charged with toppling or damaging wooden crosses that the group erected on a downtown public square to be prosecuted. "I want them all prosecuted eventually for criminal damaging and civil rights charges," said Ron Lee, vice president of the U.S. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, based in nearby Hamilton, Ohio. Protesters on Monday knocked down the third cross the klan has erected since Dec. 21.

Two 16-year-old boys have been charged with placing a cross scrawled with racist slogans at the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, authorities said. The boys were charged Tuesday with delinquency counts of ethnic intimidation and menacing, a police spokesman said. Their names were withheld because of their age. Officials at the museum in nearby Wilberforce found the cross as they arrived at work Nov. 18.

Two 16-year-old boys have been charged with placing a cross scrawled with racist slogans at the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, authorities said. The boys were charged Tuesday with delinquency counts of ethnic intimidation and menacing, a police spokesman said. Their names were withheld because of their age. Officials at the museum in nearby Wilberforce found the cross as they arrived at work Nov. 18.

A Ku Klux Klan official said Monday that he wants everyone charged with toppling or damaging wooden crosses that the group erected on a downtown public square to be prosecuted. "I want them all prosecuted eventually for criminal damaging and civil rights charges," said Ron Lee, vice president of the U.S. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, based in nearby Hamilton, Ohio. Protesters on Monday knocked down the third cross the klan has erected since Dec. 21.

About 400 persons turned out Saturday to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the National Guard shootings on a grassy hillside at Kent State University that became a focus for the nation's bitter division over the war in Southeast Asia. On May 4, 1970, after a weekend of demonstrations that saw a building burned and other vandalism, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on Kent State students who were protesting the U.S.