Miss. Grand Jury Takes Up 1964 Slayings
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Mississippi prosecutors convened a grand jury Thursday to take up one of the last pieces of unfinished business from the civil rights era: the 1964 slayings of three voter-registration volunteers.
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A 71-year-old man has been found guilty of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers, depicted in the film Mississippi Burning.
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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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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 20--BILOXI -- An autopsy of remains found floating near the shoreline of the Mississippi Sound in Biloxi showed the cause of death was drowning.
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A New Orleans grand jury that declined to indict a doctor on charges that she murdered patients in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina never heard testimony from five medical experts brought in by the state to analyze the deaths.
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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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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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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 19--Unless someone comes forward to claim him, the pedestrian accidentally killed Monday in Biloxi will join Harrison County's three other unclaimed bodies.
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The bloody revolver found at the feet of an actress shot to death in Phil Spector's mansion was shown to jurors at the music producer's murder trial on Tuesday.
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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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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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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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More than 300 potential jurors have been summoned for the trial of a reputed Ku Klux Klansman accused of abducting, beating and dumping two young black men into the Mississippi River 43 years ago.
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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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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
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By Linda Kleindienst and Chrystian Tejedor, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 21--At the request of Gov. Charlie Crist, the Florida Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to form a statewide grand jury to investigate a surge of gang violence in South Florida.
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PHILADELPHIA, Miss  - A suspected Ku Klux Klansman  will go on trial in Mississippi in March for the infamous 1964  murders of three civil rights workers, a judge said on  Wednesday.