On this date in 2000 in a North Carolina courtroom a retired demolitions expert and former Ku Klux Klan leader, E. H. Hennis, received a ten-month suspended sentence and supervised probation for three years for using a fake bomb in a threatening hoax at an October 1998 Guilford County commissioners meeting where Hennis told the commissioners that their body parts would be picked up in pieces. He had been enraged when the county removed twenty abandoned mobile homes from his property after he refused a judge’s order to remove them in 1998. In February, 2008, Hennis, 84, filed to run at-large for a spot as a Guilford County commissioner.

In Bangor, Pennsylvania (Northampton County), on this date in 2012 it was discovered that someone vandalized the outdoor Nativity display at the Trinity Lutheran Church. The vandals hung a baby Jesus statue from a noose and covered it with Satanic graffiti including "I am the anti-Christ," "666," and a pentagram. Horns and fangs were also drawn on the statue. Two months earlier vandals spray-painted sexual graffiti on the sidewalk in front of the church. It is unknown to us if local police have labelled the Nativity scene vandalism a hate crime. If you have any information about the attack on the Trinity Lutheran Church, please call the Bangor police.