On this date in 1998, in a Texas federal courtroom, three Ku Klux Klan members received lengthy sentences for their role in a 1997 conspiracy to bomb a natural gas processing plant near Fort Worth, Texas to act as a diversion for an armored car robbery. Edward Taylor, Jr., 35, was given a 21-year and 10-month prison term, but he only served about nine years of that sentence as he was released from federal prison on March 14, 2007. Shawn Dee Adams, 37, received a 14-year prison term, and he completed his prison sentence on September 29, 2006. Carl Jay Waskom, 31, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy, received a nine-year and two-month prison sentence; he completed his prison term on June 18, 2004. The wife of Shawn Adams, Catherine Dee Adams, 35, was also convicted and sentenced to a federal prison term. She completed her prison sentence on October 11, 2006.

In the early morning hours in 2009 on this date in Stockton, California, two cars on Shoreham Place were set on fire and racial slurs were spray-painted on a nearby sidewalk, and police believe the arsons may constitute a hate crime, because the owners of one vehicle are a mixed-race married couple. If you have any information about these fires, please contact the Stockton Police Department at (209) 937-8377.