Even before a jury handed down a guilty verdict in his felony murder case Wednesday, Laron Ball hinted in a phone conversation with his younger brother that he was ready to take extreme measures if things didn't go his way. "He'd rather be dead than in jail," Jacoby V. Jackson, 19, said Wednesday afternoon of the call he says he received the night before. "In so many words, that's what I got out of it." Ball told Jackson to care for Ball's six young children, all under age 3 by three different women - and a seventh child on the...