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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two young white women, part of a group who repeatedly searched Mississippi’s capital city for black people to attack, are scheduled to be sentenced Thursday. In separate hearings, U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate will sentence Sarah Adelia Graves and Shelbie Brooke Richards. Graves pleaded guilty in December to a conspiracy […]

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Civil rights activists  in Mississippi on Tuesday demanded that the brazen, cold-hearted hit-and-run killing of a 61-year-old Sunday school teacher be investigated under the theory that race may have been an overriding factor. Johnny Lee Butts, 61, was struck from behind by a runaway vehicle and dragged more than 170 feet to his death last […]