A former Mississippi sheriff's deputy was arrested Wednesday in the 1964 slayings of two black teenagers who were long believed to have been kidnapped and killed by the Ku Klux Klan.

Former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Samuel H. Bowers, who was convicted eight years ago of ordering the 1966 bombing death of a civil rights leader, died Sunday in a state penitentiary, officials said. He was 82.

By Jeff Edwards PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (Reuters) - A judge sent Edgar Ray Killen back to prison on Friday and said the Klansman jailed for orchestrating the murder of three civil rights workers had misled the court about his health to win bail.

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. - A judge sent Edgar Ray Killen back to prison Friday after finding that the former Ku Klux Klan leader, convicted for the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers, was in better health than the court had been told.

By Jeff Edwards PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (Reuters) - A judge sent Edgar Ray Killen back to prison on Friday and said the Klansman jailed for orchestrating the murder of three civil rights workers had misled the court about his health to win bail.