Edgar Ray Killen, convicted in the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, has died in prison, the brother of a victim said.

Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis said he won't attend the opening of a new museum in Mississippi this weekend, because President Donald Trump will be there.

On August 4, 1964, the remains of three slain civil rights workers were found buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss.

Barack Obama awarded the nation's highest honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 19 recipients Monday during a ceremony at the White House.

John Doar, a Republican lawyer who played a critical role in the U.S. Justice Department's support of the civil rights movement, has died.

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to review the conviction of a man in the "Mississippi Burning" killings of three civil rights workers in 1964.

An Ontario judge ordered two sisters to pay their uncle $125,000 in libel damages for falsely accusing him of sexual assault, court records state.

Cartha "Deke" DeLoach, a former deputy director of the FBI and one of J. Edgar Hoover's most trusted advisers, has died in South Carolina.

A New York prosecutor says he wants Orthodox Jews to report pedophiles despite a tradition of keeping some criminal matters within the close-knit community.

The death of a suspect in the 1964 killing of three civil rights workers in Mississippi is a setback to prosecution of the case, an activist says.

A Mississippi judge Friday refused to release Edgar Ray Killen while he appeals his conviction for organizing the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers.

Florence Mars, a native of Mississippi who denounced the killing of three civil rights workers at a time when she was putting her life at risk, has died.

The man sentenced to 60 years in a Mississippi prison for his part in the murder of three civil rights workers was released on bail Friday pending appeal.

A Mississippi judge Thursday sentenced Edgar Ray Killen to 60 years for manslaughter in the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers.

A Mississippi jury Tuesday convicted an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers.