He admitted killing his wife and previously abused others. Why has he been free for over a year?

The soft, halting notes of a piano lingered in the dark room from a video as Shalanda Archie-Cook rocked her 6-year-old sniffling son to sleep. “She’s right here,” she told him, pausing to take a shuddering breath. “In your heart.”

Here’s the proof against Carolyn Bryant Donham in the Emmett Till case. Is it enough to convict her?

The secret memoir by the 88-year-old white woman at the center of the Emmett Till case contains new proof she is lying about the night he was killed, said the retired FBI agent who investigated the 1955 murder.

Our dad was in the Klan: ‘If you don’t learn your history, then you’re doomed to relive it’

Leland and Sonny Boyd say some relatives and old friends wonder why they are speaking publicly about their father’s involvement in the Ku Klux Klan in 1960s Louisiana.

Our Dad Was in the Klan: Drawn in, disillusioned, disgusted

When Leland Boyd woke up in the middle of the night as a child, he’d sometimes find his father Earcel in the bathroom, scrubbing his hands over and over.

Our Dad Was in the Klan: He ‘had a rage in him’

Though 57 years have passed, Leland Boyd still can’t forget the smell of burnt human flesh.

In December 1964, Leland, then 12, stood in the doorway of a hospital room, where Frank Morris, a 51-year-old Black man from Ferriday, Louisiana, lay in critical condition after two men had torched his shoe shop.

‘I can’t let him out on society,’ sheriff says

Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson feels like he is on the front lines of the issues that face Mississippi corrections personnel in handling the mentally ill in the state.

Trauma of violence reverberates among youth

Fun-loving Sam Pollard Jr. won friends in his Jackson community but he had serious dreams of owning his own home.

Those dreams ended abruptly Feb. 25, 2021, when a close friend shot the 32-year-old dead on North Prentiss Street in west Jackson, leaving Pollard’s three children – two girls and a boy – to bear the trauma of violence that has scarred so many youth in Mississippi’s capital city.

Neighborhood official: ‘There’s something wrong when Jackson’s murder rate is higher than Atlanta’

Hours after graduating from Murrah High School, Kennedy Hobbs visited the cemetery where her boyfriend was buried, placing her sash across his grave and snapping a picture for Instagram, writing, “For u baby.”

‘Dead zone’ leads innocent man to spend six years behind bars

Duane Lake spent six years locked up in a jail cell in Clarksdale for a triple murder he didn’t commit.

He’s Served 20 Years in Two Notorious Mississippi Prisons. Did This Murder Suspect Receive A Fair Trial?

GREENWOOD — Imagine a murder trial in which there is no body, no murder weapon, and the prosecution’s star witness is suffering from such severe mental illness that the trial has to be postponed repeatedly.