(WLBT) - The actions of the Rankin County “Goon Squad” made national news ... The civil rights group’s efforts reached the U.S. Justice Department, leading to the convictions of six officers.

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in Mississippi after several of its former officers known as the "Goon Squad" were ...

and where the Justice Department recently won lengthy sentences for six members of the infamous “Goon Squad” of the sheriff’s department in Rankin County, population 157,000. Lexington ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

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The Justice Department has unsealed criminal charges in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump before ...

The United States Justice Department has sued Virginia for removing voters from registration rolls too close to the presidential election on November 5. The lawsuit, filed on Friday, comes in ...

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