Braves No. 12 prospect Bryse Wilson allowed three hits and a walk while striking out nine over seven innings on Thursday as Double-A Mississippi blanked Montgomery, 2-0.

Atlanta Braves infield prospect Alejandro Salazar went a perfect 5-for-5, scored three runs and drove in two in Double-A Mississippi's 12-9 loss to Pensacola.

Mississippi and U.S. Marine Corps officials dedicated a memorial Saturday to the 15 Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman who died in a plane crash last year.

The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. (July 12)

The 1955 brutal killing of the black teenager in Mississippi helped spark the US civil rights movement.