Jury: Black neighborhood denied water service

Seeded on Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:27 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

Residents of a mostly black neighborhood in rural Ohio were awarded nearly $11 million Thursday by a federal jury that found local authorities denied them public water service for decades out of racial discrimination.

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