Federal authorities will continue to investigate the 1964 Mississippi killings of three civil rights workers — a case that helped pass landmark legislation — despite the death of a key suspect, the Justice Department says. Billy Wayne Posey, 73, died Thursday. Federal investigators were looking into his possible ...

Out on the cabin porches where fairgoers have gathered for decades, it's old home week. There's gossip, how's-your-mama banter, ice-cold sweet tea and, if you know where to look in this mostly dry county, a little hooch. As the nation roils in recession ...

Mississippi officials say a historical marker can be placed on a state highway near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. The state Department of Archives and History authorized the marker on Mississippi 19 in Neshoba County. On June 21, 1964, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman ...