SHARPTON, CONYERS MEET WITH JENA 6 MOTHER ON CAPITOL HILL
Melissa Bell arrives for a meeting with members of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on September 25, 2007. Melissa Bell's son Mychal Bell, one of the Jena Six, is charged with the beating of a white classmate. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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MONROE, La., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A Louisiana teenager arrested in the racially charged "Jena 6" assault case has been hospitalized after accidentally shooting himself, his lawyer says.
JENA, La., Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Lawyers hammered out a plea agreement Monday for one of the six Louisiana teenagers charged with assaulting a white classmate.
JENA, La., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Jena Six defendant Mychal Bell, released from an adult correctional facility, was back in custody in a Louisiana juvenile facility, a family spokesman said.
JENA, La., Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Jena 6 figure Mychal Bell was released on bail Thursday, after a Louisiana prosecutor said he will not appeal a court order that Bell be tried as a juvenile.
BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Wednesday Jena 6 defendant Mychal Bell will be tried as a juvenile.
JENA, La., Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Deputies have stepped up patrols around the homes of six black teenagers charged in the beating of a white schoolmate in Jena, La.
JENA, La., Sept. 21 (UPI) -- A Louisiana judge refused Friday to release Mychal Bell, the only jailed member of the group of black teenagers known as the Jena 6.
JENA, La., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Thousands of people traveled to tiny Jena, La., Thursday to protest the issue of racial bias in the prosecution of six African-American high school students.
LAKE CHARLES, La., Sept. 14 (UPI) -- A Louisiana appeals court ruled Friday that a black teenager was wrongly tried as an adult and dismissed his conviction in a racially charged battery case.
JENA, La., Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Civil rights activists plan a march in support of six black Louisiana high school students on the day one of them is to be sentenced for assault.
