Sports
Stanford won 15 of the 18 events, including five of six races Tuesday night, to claim its seventh consecutive Pacific 10 Conference women’s swimming championship at Belmont Plaza Pool in Long Beach.
March 3, 1993
California
A 23-year-old Westminster man who reportedly espouses racist views pleaded not guilty in a Santa Ana federal court Monday to charges that he burned a cross on the front lawn of a neighboring black family last summer.
Nov. 1, 1988
One of two statements made by Gary Skillman in which he admitted knowledge of a cross-burning on the lawn of a black Westminster family will not be used at his Jan. 4 criminal trial, prosecutors said in a federal court hearing Monday in Santa Ana.
Dec. 20, 1988
After deliberating only 15 minutes, a jury in U.S.
Jan. 5, 1989
World & Nation
The criminal trial of a Westminster man on charges of burning a cross at the home of a black family opened Friday, with prosecutors saying they have evidence of yet another statement in which the defendant allegedly implicates himself.
Dec. 31, 1988
A Westminster man who fanned racial fears last summer when he burned a 4-foot, wooden cross in the yard of a neighboring black family was ordered Friday to spend 37 months in federal prison for the crime.
April 8, 1989
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction and authorized a longer prison term for an Orange County man in the burning of a wooden cross in the yard of a neighboring black family.
Sept. 15, 1990
A Westminster man accused of burning a cross in a black family’s yard acknowledged to police a few days after the July 28 incident that he took part in the cross-burning but insisted that he had only followed the lead of his friends, according to court documents filed by prosecutors.
Dec. 13, 1988
Authorities say a Michigan man celebrating his 21st birthday accidentally shot his best friend and then killed himself in grief.
Jan. 27, 2018
After deliberating only 15 minutes, a U.S.