Roxie News

Reputed Klansman James Ford Seale lost one appeal argument Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court in his quest to overturn his 2007 federal kidnapping convictions in the deaths of two black teens more than 45 years ago.

GONZALES A Walker man was killed in a two-vehicle crash this morning just after 6 a.m. on LA 42 west of LA 44 in Ascension Parish.

Canadian filmmaker David Ridgen says the Dee-Moore murders came about in part because "in southwest Mississippi, in the spring of 1964, the Klan had a theory that blacks were running guns into Franklin and Adams County in order to start what they characterized as a 'Muslim insurrection'." Ridgen wrote, produced and directed the award-winning 2007 ...

Hot-air balloons illuminated more than the Natchez night sky during Friday's balloon glow.

Harry MacLean, a nationally acclaimed novelist, has published a new book on James Ford Seale, the former Roxie cropduster and reputed Klansman convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 slayings of two black teenagers, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore.

Roxie Sits....Roxie Stays, and Roxie has stayed too long, living in a dog kennel at the Jefferson County Humane Society.

An appeals court ruling on Friday means reputed Klansman James Ford Seale in all likelihood will spend the rest of his days behind bars.