Six candidates in Georgia’s 13th Congressional District will compete in a special election Tuesday to replace the late Democratic U.S. Rep. David Scott, who died in April.

A police shooting in Senatobia, Mississippi, that left a 1-year-old child dead has ignited simmering tensions between police and Black residents in the town of 8,000.

Georgia lawmakers are expected to try to clean up an election mess of their own making when they return to the Capitol this week for a special session.

The mother of a 10-year-old child who was sentenced by a Mississippi judge to three months of probation and a book report for urinating in public has refused to sign his probation agreement and has asked for the charge against her son to be dismissed.

A 10-year-old Black child who urinated in a parking lot is being sentenced to three months’ probation.

A Mississippi judge has cited police errors in declaring a mistrial for two white men accused of chasing and shooting at a Black FedEx employee who was making a delivery.

Attorneys made brief opening arguments Tuesday in the trial of two white men in Mississippi who are accused of chasing and shooting at a Black FedEx driver who had dropped off a package at a home.

An attorney says a Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an 11-year-old Black boy in the child’s home should be fired.