Mississippi Town Faces Ghosts of 1964 Murders
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PHILADELPHIA, Miss.  - An elderly woodsman and  preacher who tends to the sick and is loved by his neighbors. A  hate-filled Klansman who masterminded one of the most notorious  civil rights-era crimes in American history.
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A reputed Ku Klux Klan member pleaded not guilty Friday to state charges of murdering three civil rights workers more than 40 years ago in one of the most notorious crimes of Mississippi's troubled past.
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In a close-knit town where many families gather this time of year to hunt deer, residents instead are sharing their grief for six hunters shot and killed in Wisconsin's northwoods.
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Years of neglect left the once-thriving business district of this rural community looking just like its name sounds.
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Sixty years after smoke from burning Jewish corpses darkened the sky here, little about this former death camp's exterior reveals the horror and scale of the crimes committed on its grounds.
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Bullet holes still pepper a small house on the outskirts of town where two law officers died in a gunbattle over a patch of land the state wanted to take for a highway project.
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By Hurst Laviana, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb. 7--Sedgwick County sheriff's detectives interviewed more than a half-dozen witnesses Tuesday as they tried to re-create the final hours of a man found shot to death southeast of Haysville.   Capt.
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One small town provides a snapshot of an electorate riven by tribal infighting
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BIG CREEK, W.Va., Sept. 12 -- The curtains on the trailer home were closed, a shopping cart of empty beer cans was dumped by the porch and rats scurried across the trash-strewn yard. The yellow police tape attached to the porch rail gave the only hint of the brutal and bizarre crime that authorit...
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On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, anger over the stalled rebuilding was palpable throughout a city where the mourning for the dead and feeling of loss for flooded homes, schools, snowball stands, old-time hairstylists and hardware stores doesn't seem to subside.
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Hurricane Katrina erased much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast's past, but the deadly storm also created a blank canvas and a historic opportunity for reinventing cities like this once-quaint beach community.
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The cold case trial got under way Wednesday in the deaths of two black teenagers who were beaten and dumped still alive into the Mississippi River during the state's dark days of racial brutality.
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If local legend is true, there are almost as many ghosts wandering the streets of the ancient English city of Exeter as there are people.
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Residents of this grief-stricken southern city on Tuesday marked the end of the 40-day mourning period for the hundreds of victims of a school massacre, lighting thin prayer candles and propping up photographs in the gymnasium at the center of the tragedy.
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BIG CREEK, W.Va., Sept. 12 -- The curtains on the trailer home were closed, a shopping cart of empty beer cans was dumped by the porch and rats scurried across the trash-strewn yard. The yellow police tape attached to the porch rail gave the only hint of the brutal and bizarre crime that authorities...
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ROCKPORT, Mass. -- A sign by a shaded doorway in this tourist village discreetly announces "Hannah Jumper lived here." She also died in the white clapboard house in the mid-1800s, collapsing at age 84 -- but her spirit has never left.
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There is a newfound willingness to confront the five nights of gunfire, looting and flames driven by race-tinged rage that disemboweled the cityâs midsection in 1967.