Mississippi will now have its own Freedom Trail, designed to commemorate dozens of historical events during the civil rights movement.

Photographs of Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Miss., in 1961

“The Mississippi Freedom Trail is an enormous opportunity for our state to commemorate the bravery and courage of the men and women who fought for freedom and justice and to educate the public about Mississippi’s Civil Rights heritage,” Leland Speed, executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, said in a statement Thursday. “With

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Police were investigating two shooting incidents early Saturday, including one in which a 25-year-old man died.

The 25-year-old was shot to death at 12:45 a.m. on the street in the 2300 block of N. 15th St. A 44-year-old woman also was shot and was at a hospital, but was expected to survive.

In a separate incident, a 25-year-old man was shot in a residence in the 1600 block of S. 16th St. at about 1:45 a.m. He was in critical condition.

The head of a New York payroll company was sentenced Friday to 6 1/2 years in federal prison for stealing $18 million from Sacramento County.

U.S. District Court Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr., who started his legal career as a prosecutor for the county, said Albert Cipoletti violated his position of trust as chief executive officer of Ingentra HR Services.

Sacramento County sent money to Ingentra to handle payroll taxes for special districts, but the company understated the amount in its filings to the Internal Revenue Service. From 2005 to 2010, the company handled payroll taxes for about 3,000 special-district employees.

Cipoletti and a co-defendant were accused of stealing $20 million altogether, with some money also coming from Stanley Works and Stanley Solutions Inc.

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Solihull Liberal Democrat MP Lorely Burt has claimed that voters punished her party at the polls because they thought they were led by the nose by Conservatives.Ms Burt, the chair of the Lib Dem Parliamentary Party, said there had been disagreements and arguments behind the scenes since the coalition was formed last May.

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A candidate who won a nomination for Fort Wayne city council has perplexed his party, the Allen County election board, and voters who are trying to find him.

Tommy A. Schrader ran for one of the three Fort Wayne city council at-large seats as a Democrat in Tuesday’s primary. He’s one of the party’s three nominees headed for the general election in November.

But no one seems to know where he is, or who he is. His party has never seen or spoke to him before.

“We don’t know who this guy is. We don’t know where he’s at. Or what’s happened to him,” said Kevin Knuth, spokesman for the Allen County Democratic party.

NewsChannel 15 tried to track him down, Thursday, by calling the phone number listed on his declaration of candidacy.

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Last week, President Obama honored survivors of the sanitation strike in Memphis — the final campaign of Martin Luther King Jr. before his 1968 assassination.

Sanitation workers strike in Memphis in 1968.

On Friday, the President met with eight of those survivors, who famously held the signs that declared, “I Am a Man.”

A statement released by the White House declared, “As workers across the country continue to face challenges to their rights, the issues for which these men fought continue to be relevant and the President remains committed to the causes for which they marched.”

Also Friday, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis ann

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