While the myriad of crime dramas that have come and gone over the decades of film and television have made us well aware of many different real-life crime organizations, that doesn't mean that there ...

A former boss of the Dixie Mafia who ordered the murders of a circuit court judge and his wife in 1987 and who was suspected in the 1967 shooting which killed the wife of Sheriff Buford Pusser of ...

King speaking to an anti-Vietnam war rally at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, April 27, 1967. Credit: Minnesota Historical Society “We’ve basically solved the case, telling people how it ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - The Dixie Mafia boss who ordered the Sherry murders more than three decades ago is asking to get out of prison for medical reasons. 80-year-old Kirksey McCord Nix is petitioning ...

Historian Jeanne Theoharis’s new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, is a major reexamination of the civil rights leader that offers a different ...