Nation Oct 19

Mississippi’s attorney general says a Senatobia officer was justified in using force when he responded to a shoplifting call and fired at a moving vehicle that investigators said was driving toward police, killing a boy who was in the car.

Nation Oct 11

At least four deaths were linked to Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, which came ashore as a Category 2 hurricane Friday near Destin, Florida, a Gulf Coast vacation spot filled with high-rises and tourist shops. The storm…

Politics Oct 02

Trump’s decision to spend so much time in deep red states that have garnered relatively little attention during the critical final stretch underscores his party's uphill climb and the electorate's broad disapproval of his performance as president.

Nation Sep 25

Authorities haven’t disclosed the exact cause of Fortune’s death, but they did rule it a homicide and have arrested two men, both of them Black, on murder charges. They also issued an arrest warrant for a third, unnamed, person.

Nation Sep 23

Police in Mississippi have arrested a second man in the death of a Black woman found hanging from a tree and have issued an arrest warrant for a third suspect.

Nation Sep 22

A grand jury determined that there wasn't evidence to warrant charges in the death of Nolan Wells, a Black college student whose body was found after a July 4 boating trip and party on an island off the Mississippi Gulf…

Nation Sep 14

A man charged with murder in the hanging of a Black woman in Mississippi pleaded not guilty Monday at his first court appearance.

Nation Aug 10

The hanging death of Tasia Fortune, whose body was found outside an abandoned house, has shaken her family and community in Mississippi, where two other people have been found hanging from trees in less than a year.

Nation Apr 19

Authorities and relatives say a man killed seven of his children and another child and wounded two women in Shreveport, Louisiana. The violence Sunday was the nation’s deadliest shooting in more than two years.

Politics Mar 10

Longtime U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson won the Democratic nomination for Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District on Tuesday, defeating two challengers, including a young antitrust lawyer with experience working in Washington.