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GEORGIA

Activists seek probe of 1946 lynching

MONROE — Activists are seeking a new investigation of a 1946 lynching at the Moore’s Ford bridge, when a white mob pulled four black sharecroppers from a car near the river’s banks and fatally shot them.

Politicians and relatives of the victims plan a rally tonight at the courthouse and a march across the bridge tomorrow. They are urging a local prosecutor to use the FBI’s original investigation to seek indictments against the few surviving suspects in the deaths.

District Attorney Ken Wynne says he will not seek indictments unless new evidence is presented.

MASSACHUSETTS

Joan Kennedy still hospitalized

BOSTON — The neighbor who found Joan Bennett Kennedy lying on a sidewalk this week said she had no idea the woman she helped was a member of one of America’s best-known families.

Constance Bacon, 35, said she was returning home Monday evening when she saw a well-dressed woman sprawled on the sidewalk in the rain.

The former wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was recovering yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital after suffering a concussion and broken shoulder. Mrs. Kennedy, 68, has battled alcoholism for years.

ALASKA

Church, wholesaler to buy seafood plant

ANCHORAGE — A group affiliated with ChangePoint, an evangelical church, and a food wholesaler have agreed to buy a vacant 202,000-square-foot seafood plant for $24.5 million, about half the building’s original cost.

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