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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It was Charles Dickens who once wrote about ghosts of the past, present, and future. And while similar apparitions roamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center yesterday, prompting death watches at courts around the grounds, those men with the greatest expectations hoisted upon them, in the end, proved most stingy or, dare we say, Scrooge-like.
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Jurors on Thursday visited the crime scene where U.S. actor Robert Blake's wife was murdered after a prosecution expert witness testified that Bonny Lee Bakley was killed with a Nazi-era pistol.
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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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It's not like anyone from a decaying neighborhood east of downtown is harboring illusions that the place is crime-free. But the discovery of six bodies has raised fears that a serial killer is preying on the area, which one activist calls the most decrepit in the city.
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PENSACOLA (Florida) - People in this Gulf Coast town emerged from bolt holes and hiding places on Thursday to find their city battered, splintered and tossed about like so much toy furniture in the hands of a furious child.
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The recovery of New Orleans slowly drags on two years after Hurricane Katrina but one thing back in full swing since the killer storm is crime, particularly murders.
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THE OLD Christmas carolâs âlittle townâ is now a city larger than Charleston, and itâsa depressing place. Four years ago, more than 91,000 tourists visited in a year to see Bethlehemâs religious
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By TODD RICHMOND LAKE DELTON, Wis. - In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying.
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Things are looking up for six black teens charged with trying to kill a white classmate last year after a Louisiana court vacated the conviction of one of the men. But national civil-rights advocates say something remains very amiss in the small town.
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Twice a day, the tourists come. They smile -- striking poses on the severed porch just yards from where Robert Green says Ditty died with his two kids. Two years after Green lost everything -- family and possessions -- the gawkers are another reminder of just how far from normal his life is after Katrina.
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In a close-knit town where many families gather this time of year to hunt deer, residents instead are attending funerals for six hunters shot and killed in Wisconsin's northwoods.
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A tornado leveled Jerrold Hoffman's town of Udall more than 50 years ago, killing 77 people and leaving little behind for the survivors. So after a twister swept through Greensburg this year, wreaking similar destruction, he decided he would at least try to help the town get its scenery back.
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All but closing the books on a crime that helped give rise to the civil rights movement, a grand jury has refused to bring any new charges in the 1955 slaying of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was beaten and shot after whistling at a white woman in the Mississippi Delta.
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - A former Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty of kidnapping on Thursday in the 1964 deaths of two black men in Mississippi, a case that highlighted white supremacist violence during the civil rights era.
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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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This week's arrest of Edgar Ray Killen, 79, a longtime suspect in the killing of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, marks the first charge of murder in the famous case. TIME has followed this case since the men disappeared in 1964