Jury convicts Mass. man in Obama-church fire case

Friday, April 15, 2011

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- A federal jury on Thursday convicted a 26-year-old white man of burning down a predominantly black church in Springfield in the hours after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, a crime prosecutors say was fueled by racist anger.

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