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PEARL, Miss. (AP) -- A black man accused of stabbing an outspoken white supremacist to death says he didn't know about the man's racist views before the killing in Mississippi. Vincent McGee told an Associated Press reporter on Monday that he learned later that Richard Barrett was a racist leader

JACKSON, Miss. -- The Mississippi State Fair opens in two weeks, but it's already losing money. A group with ties to the Ku Klux Klan, called the Nationalist Movement, is planning to set up an information booth at the fair -- a plan that's driving away some businesses and customers. The group's leader, Richard Barrett, calls it a "pro-majority" group. The Anti-Defamation League calls it white supremacist. Either way, the group's attempts to set up shop aren't sitting well with the fair commission. "I've been here for three years and gone to the fair every year," said Ramie Mitchell. "This...

JACKSON, Miss. -- The Mississippi State Fair opens in two weeks, but it's already losing money. A group with ties to the white supremacist movement, called the Nationalist Movement, is planning to set up an information booth at the fair -- a plan that's driving away some businesses and customers. The group's leader, Richard Barrett, calls it a "pro-majority" group. The Anti-Defamation League calls it white supremacist. Either way, the group's attempts to set up shop aren't sitting well with the fair commission. "I've been here for three years and gone to the fair every year," said Ramie Mitchell. "This...

A reputed Ku Klux Klansman under investigation for the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi has no intention of joining a white supremacist group at next week's state fair, his wife said Friday. Betty Jo Killen, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from her home in Union, said her 79-year-old husband never told Nationalist Movement leader Richard Barrett that he would attend the fair. "He has nothing to do with the booth,'' she told The AP. "That is Richard Barrett's doing. Richard Barrett wanted publicity and he got plenty.'' Mrs. Killen said Barrett did tell...