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

Authorities said the civil rights probe would examine whether officers systemically targeted minorities with excessive force.

Suspected human remains were found in a pickup truck pulled from the Mississippi by East Moline police on Sunday.

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in ...

The Justice Department will investigate whether the Rankin County Sheriff's Office engaged in a pattern or practice of ...

Six former officers, who were members of a self-proclaimed "Goon Squad," were sentenced to decades in prison for torturing ...

GRENADA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood on the courthouse square since 1910 ...

A Mississippi teenager was killed Thursday after being hit by a train while reportedly trying to take a shortcut on the ...

In Alabama, almost all police records are secret — and have become increasingly so in recent years. “The way the legislature ...

The Justice Department will determine if allegations of widespread violence and improper searches amount to a pattern of ...

Kentucky State Police believe the body the suspect who opened fire on an interstate highway earlier this month, wounding five people, has been found.