Mike Leach apologizes for controversial tweet depicting a noose
STARKVILLE — Mississippi State coach Mike Leach’s Twitter account found him in hot water again this week.
Stone County High School students dispute ‘noose’ claims
Many Stone County High School students who attended a prayer rally Wednesday said allegations that white students placed a noose around the neck of a black student and yanked it have been misconstrued.
Man gets second plea hearing over noose on Ole Miss statue
JACKSON — A man federal prosecutors say placed a noose on a statue of a civil rights activist will get a second chance to plead
Prison for man who helped place noose on Ole Miss statue
A former University of Mississippi student who admitted helping place a noose on a statue of a civil rights activist is going to prison.
Second man set to plead guilty over noose on Ole Miss statue
A man implicated by federal prosecutors in placing a noose on a statue of a civil rights activist plans to plead guilty.
Man pleads guilty to charge over noose on Ole Miss statue
A federal prosecutor said in court Thursday that Graeme Phillip Harris hatched a plan, after a night of drinking at a University of Mississippi fraternity house, to hang a noose on a campus statue of James Meredith, the first black student at Ole Miss.
Attorney: Indicted former Ole Miss student innocent
The attorney for a former University of Mississippi student indicted on federal charges connected to an incident where a noose was put on a statue James Meredith says his client didn’t do it.
Man charged in noose left on statue at Ole Miss
A former University of Mississippi student has been indicted on federal charges connected to a noose being put on a statue of the student who integrated the school, the Justice Department said Friday.
Iran mother recalls act of mercy for son’s killer
Her son’s killer stood on a chair on the gallows, his hands shackled, the noose around his neck. Hundreds crowded outside the jailhouse in a northern Iranian town to see if the mother, Samereh Alinejad, would exercise her right to kick the chair out from under him to let him hang.
Fraternity shuts Ole Miss branch
A national fraternity group has closed its University of Mississippi chapter after three members were accused of tying a noose around the neck of a statue of the first black student to enroll in the Southern college that was all-white at the time.
Meredith calls noose on Ole Miss statue ‘foolish’
James Meredith says it was “foolish” for anyone to leave a noose and a Confederate emblem on a statue of him at the University of Mississippi, the school he integrated in 1962.
Ole Miss frat suspended, noose suspects kicked out
A fraternity chapter at the University of Mississippi was indefinitely suspended Friday by its national organization and three of its freshman members were kicked out because of their suspected involvement in hanging a noose on a statue of James Meredith, the first black student to enroll in the then all-white college.
FBI helping with investigation of Ole Miss statue
The FBI on Tuesday was helping investigate who tied a noose around the neck of a University of Mississippi statue of James Meredith, who, in 1962, became the first black student to enroll in the then all-white Southern college.
Our view: Ole Miss should back words with action
Here we go again.
Early Sunday morning, two men placed a hangman’s noose over the head of a statue of James Meredith on the University of Mississippi campus and draped the statue with an old Georgia state flag, which like Mississippi’s current flag, contains a replica of what is commonly known as the Confederate Battle Flag.
Reward for suspects who defaced Ole Miss statue
A $25,000 reward is available for information leading to the arrest of two men involved in defacing the James Meredith statue at the University of Mississippi.
Noose hung at mayoral candidate’s office
MERIDIAN — Someone hung a noose with a stuffed animal outside the office a Meridian mayoral candidate. Meridian police tell WTOK-TV they found a hooded