Raleigh News

Laurel - Services are 2 p.m. Tuesday at Double Church in Smith County for Wydell T. Craft, 95, of Laurel, formerly of Raleigh, who died Dec.

We live in a world full of love and hate. More and more these days, it seems people are on one side or the other.

The streets of Downtown Raleigh are a lot quieter today than they were a week ago when Ku Klux Klan members from across the South gathered for a rally on the courthouse steps of this small Mississippi community.

Thirty-four year-old Gayla Gavin of Raleigh couldn't believe her eyes and ears Saturday when she saw a group of white supremacists gathered on the courthouse steps saying they were there to "get rid of the unwanted." "I thought we were past that," said the black woman who has lived in Raleigh all her life.

The Ku Klux Klan is still alive in parts of Mississippi. The Smith County Sheriff's Department confirms that the white supremacist group made arrangements to march at the courthouse in Raleigh at noon Saturday.

The driver accused of a fatal hit-and-run near Puckett on Thursday is awaiting transfer from the Smith County jail to the jail in Rankin County.