Civil rights-era murders tough to solve
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The Florida Department of Law Enforcement sent its most aggressive agent to work on the case full time, armed with big stacks of files from the FBI and sheriff's investigators. Even with those resources, it took nearly two years to finally solve the 1951 murders of black civil rights activists Harry T. and Harriette Moore, whose house was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members.
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A grand jury declined to issue an indictment in the 1955 slaying of black Chicago teenager Emmett Till, who was kidnapped from his uncle's home in the Mississippi Delta and shot to death after whistling at a white woman.
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Four decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the streets, avenues, boulevards and highways that bear his name remain  crossroads of the nation's past and future.
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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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Human rights groups and relatives  of women murdered near the Mexico-U.S. border want a  world-renowned Argentine forensic team to study more than 300  killings over the past decade, many of which are still  unsolved.
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Investigators searched for clues Tuesday in the execution-style slaying of five people, including a 3-year-old boy, but police said they had no suspects.
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As silence about crimes during the Spanish Civil war erodes, justice is still sought.
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The FBI recruited a mafia enforcer to help solve the slaying of three civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in the 1960s, according to evidence provided in Brooklyn state court by a mobster's moll.
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - A former Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty of kidnapping on Thursday in the 1964 killings of two black men in Mississippi, a case that highlighted white supremacist violence during the civil rights era.
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An appeals court upheld the murder convictions of two white men for killing a black woman during 1969 race riots, saying the defendants failed to show they were harmed by the 32-year delay in the case.
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The FBI has been reviewing nearly 100 unsolved suspected murders from the civil rights era more than 40 years ago and is focusing initially on a dozen cases to investigate further, FBI officials said on Tuesday.
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Scotland Yard's investigators may not have much to work with in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, leading to an inquiry that raises more questions than answers, analysts say.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- When gay rights activist Brian Williamson was stabbed to death in June, and jubilant crowds danced around his mutilated body, police said he had been a robbery victim.
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - A former Ku Klux Klansman went on trial on Monday for kidnapping two black men murdered in Mississippi in 1964 in a case that highlights white supremacist violence during the civil rights era.
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Jim Clark, the sheriff of Selma, Ala., led the charge against protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the civil-rights showdown known as 'Bloody Sunday.' He passed away this week. Rep. John Lewis, who survived the blows of Clarkâs men, remembers his nemesis.
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Civil rights advocates Monday urged U.S.  law enforcement officials trying to solve a 3-year-old murder  case to stop asking for DNA samples from male residents of a  Cape Cod community.
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Investigators returned Wednesday to the scene of Sunday&#39;s deer hunter killings, hoping to sort out two versions of how six people died.