NAACP seeks federal probe after noose put on black student

WIGGINS, Miss. (AP) — The president of the Mississippi NAACP is demanding a federal investigation after the parents of a black high school student said four white students put a noose around their son’s neck at school.

“We’re calling on federal investigators to view this as a racial hate crime.... This is 2016, not 1916,” president Derrick Johnson said Monday during a news conference in Wiggins. H...