Val Walton
Val Walton is an author at Religion News Service.
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Alabama Church Arsonists Sentenced to Prison
By Val Walton — April 11, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ Three former Birmingham college students are headed for federal prison cells after a judge Monday (April 9) ordered them to serve sentences ranging from seven to eight years for a series of rural church fires last year. U.S. District Judge David Proctor sentenced Matthew Cloyd, 21, and […]
Federal investigators seek links in burnings of black churches
By Val Walton — March 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS)-Federal officials say they have found no evidence of any widespread conspiracy behind the many suspicious fires that have destroyed black churches across the South recently, although one investigator says some of the fires are “likely connected.” A 19-year-old white volunteer firefighter was arrested Wednesday (March 6) in […]
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