The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff’s department whose officers tortured two Black men in a racist attack that included beatings, repeated use of ...

A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder in the slaying, police said. The ...

The Mississippi Court of Appeals convened at the University of Southern Mississippi for the first time in nearly a decade ...

This investigation is separate and independent from the federal criminal civil rights prosecutions of Rankin County deputies ...

The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County ...

Prosecutors, jurors, and the victim’s family want Marcellus Williams’ execution tossed. He’s still set to be executed next ...