Klan Group, County Reach Deal, Drop Suits

A Ku Klux Klan faction that had terrorized neighbors in rural Indiana has agreed to cease all gunfire on its property, except for hunting expeditions by the group’s leader and his family. Richard Loy also testified in court that he was not using his Osceola ranch house as a church, although for months he has insisted that the cross-burnings and white power rallies he holds there are a form of religious worship.

And, in exchange for Loy dropping a lawsuit claiming religious persecution, St. Joseph County officials agreed to withdraw a suit they had filed against him for various zoning violations.