CROSSES 1998

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• Parma: Ory Penny's unwanted visitor with a burning cross has been replaced by a steady stream of well-wishers bearing ham, cookies and grass seed; area churches replant yard, repair pain of burning cross
  Plain Dealer 12 Dec, 1998, pg. 1 sec. B

• Parma: 15-year-old Valley Forge High School student admits to igniting a wooden cross on the front lawn of a black family; police arrested the boy at school, police spokesman says
  Plain Dealer 09 Dec, 1998, pg. 1 sec. B

• Parma: Cross burned in Parma yard of a black family who had moved into house nine days before; Ory Penny, who had lived in a Parma apartment for five years before buying his first home, says his family is not moving-il
  Plain Dealer 08 Dec, 1998, pg. 1 sec. B

• Parma: A wooden cross was set afire just after midnight Saturday on the front lawn of a black family's home, police say
  Plain Dealer 07 Dec, 1998, pg. 2 sec. B

• Ku Klux Klan cross was taken down twice from Cincinnati's downtown Fountain Square within 24 hours, police say; 16-year-old student, who is black, was cited on a charge of criminal damage for the first incident
  Plain Dealer 06 Dec, 1998, pg. 7 sec. B

• Cincinnati: William Steven Bonham, 26, Goshen, pleaded guilty to setting cross on fire to intimidate white woman, Christa Schmurr, who was dating a black man; Bonham could receive up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each count; second man, Eugene Michael Coogan, pleaded guilty May 5
  Plain Dealer 28 Jun, 1998, pg. 4 sec. B

• Catholic cemetery crosses under 3 feet can remain; Catholic Cemetery Association, which operates 17 area cemeteries, amends its recent decision to begin enforcing rules governing the height of grave markers-il
  Plain Dealer 19 Feb, 1998, pg. 1 sec. B

• Cross of Justin II, the most important object in the treasury of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, is part of the Vatican Treasures exhibit that opens at the Cleveland Museum of Art Feb 8 and runs through April 12
  Plain Dealer 31 Jan, 1998, pg. 1 sec. A

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