Arizona

Sentencing Means White Supremacist 'Serial' Bomber Likely To Die Behind Bars For Arizona Attack

Nick R. Martin | May 23, 2012, 1:23PM

Dennis Mahon. In background, damage is shown from the 2004 bomb he was convicted of sending to a city office in Scottsdale, Ariz. The explosion injured three city staffers.

Chances are, unless he lives to 102, a white supremacist who bragged about being a serial bomber will die in prison for his role in the 2004 mail bombing of a city office in Arizona.

Dennis Mahon, 61, was sentenced by a federal judge on Tuesday in Phoenix to spend the next 40 years in prison for the bombing, which injured three employees of the Scottsdale city government, including its diversity director.

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White Supremacist Groups

How The Feds Brought Down Arizona's Suspected White Supremacist 'Serial' Bombing Brothers

Nick R. Martin | January 10, 2012, 5:25AM

In a small trailer park in Catoosa, Okla., in 2005, an aging white supremacist made a startling claim to a woman he had met only earlier that day.

He told her he was a serial bomber.

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Sons of Confederate Veterans

Confederate Group In Mississippi Proposes License Plates To Honor KKK Member

David Taintor | February 11, 2011, 8:31AM

Civil War reenactors in Columbia, S.C.

A Confederate group in Mississippi wants to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War ... from now until 2015.

The Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans is proposing a series of license plates to commemorate the war, with a new one being introduced every year, the Associated Press reports.

One of those designs -- slated for a 2014 release -- commemorates Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who served as a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard after the war.

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Haley Barbour

Yazoo Citizens' Council Drove Out The Klan Over Strategy, Not Segregation

Rachel Slajda | December 21, 2010, 2:40PM

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's argument in defense of the pro-segregation Citizens' Council from his hometown of Yazoo City, Miss., has centered on the fact that the group, made up of white town leaders, drove the violent Ku Klux Klan out of town.

"In Yazoo City they [the council] passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town. ... We didn't have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City," he told the Weekly Standard. He stuck to the same version of events in his walkback today, though adding that the Council wasn't made up of "saints."

But why did the Yazoo City Citizens' Council, an outfit that led boycotts of integration supporters and drove the local NAACP out of town, fight the KKK?

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