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If you'll forgive us a brief moment of seriousness, we're pleased to see today's Times and News giving prominent, Page One coverage to yesterday's manslaughter conviction of Edgar Ray Killen. He's the Klansman who, 41 years earlier to the day, masterminded the killings of three civil-rights workers, including two idealistic New Yorkers who had traveled south, in Philadelphia, Miss. He was never before tried by the state, and there was a hung jury in his federal trial, and so he's been free all this time. It took four decades, but now he'll likely spend the rest of his life in jail.

Which, we suspect, gives Michael Jackson's accusers a much-needed glimmer of hope, too.

Former Klansman Guilty of Manslaughter in 1964 Deaths [NYT]
Ex-Klansman in Guilty in 3 Slays [NYDN]