Activists Praise Delay in 1964 Miss. Case
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There's an old saying, "Justice delayed is justice denied." But in the case of three civil rights workers slain in Mississippi four decades ago, some say time may be on justice's side.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 18--PASCAGOULA -- Sometimes individuals and groups in Jackson County do not have much to give back to volunteers for their long hours and hard work.
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A judge has delayed his ruling allowing felons to vote until after the Nov. 7 general election and until the state Supreme Court can review the issue.
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Absentee ballots mailed by Florida elections supervisors too late for possibly thousands of voters to return them on time should still count, the American Civil Liberties Union argued in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Protest curbs to be reviewed and greater protection for investigative journalism.
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The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on  Monday a ruling that the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist group  can take part in Missouri's "Adopt-A-Highway" program in which  volunteers pick up trash along the road and the state puts up a  sign thanking the group.
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House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay, admonished twice in six days by his chamber&#39;s ethics committee, withstood calls on Thursday by rival Democrats and citizen groups that he step aside.
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An anonymous donor has posted a &#36;100,000 reward for information leading to murder charges in one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era &#151; the "Freedom Summer" slayings of three civil rights workers in 1964.
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The fate of 50,000 plus Mississippians is back in the hands of the legislature. Today, it was announced before Judge Henry Wingate in federal court that the plaintiffs and defendants had reached
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A federal judge has agreed to delay the trial of a former professor suspected of terrorist ties, in part because of publicity about the case during the state's U.S. Senate race and the amount of evidence that attorneys must study.
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Jury selection in the Michael Jackson molestation case has been delayed, but media efforts to learn more about who might eventually sit in judgment of the entertainer are moving ahead.
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The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist group can take part in Missouri's "Adopt-A-Highway" program in which volunteers pick up trash along the road and the state puts up a sign thanking the group.
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Fannie Lee Chaney, the mother of one of three civil-rights workers killed in the "Mississippi Burning" case in 1964, has died, her son said Wednesday. Chaney, 84, had lived to see a reputed Klan leader convicted two years ago in the young men's deaths.
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With House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) now involved directly or tangentially in a handful of ethics cases and investigations, some analysts say that another setback could substantially
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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 mother of a civil-rights worker killed in the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" case will be buried next to her son on Saturday, more than 40 years after she left the state because of death threats.
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A Supreme Court decision in favor of one protesting village has inspired others.