A man convicted of plotting to blow up a federal courthouse was sentenced Thursday to 120 years in prison. Gale Nettles, 66, was sentenced to eight consecutive 20-year sentences for conspiring to bomb the Everett M. Dirksen federal courthouse, a 28-story glass and steel structure at the south end of Chicago, and for counterfeiting $20 and $100 bills. Judge John F. Keenan of U.S. District Court in Manhattan presided over the trial after Chicago’s federal judges were recused. Full Story