Tag: Mississippi
Mississippi to file arguments in landmark abortion case
JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi attorney general’s office is expected to file briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to outline the state’s...
Mississippi city settles over man’s death in police custody
SOUTHAVEN. Miss. — The family of a Tennessee man who took LSD at a concert and then died after police stunned him and restrained...
Officer dies in crash a day after graduating police academy
WAVELAND, Miss. — A weekend car crash killed a Mississippi police officer just a day after she graduated from the police academy, the police...
Mississippi marker honors 2 killed Black men killed by Klan
MEADVILLE, Miss. — Friends and relatives gathered Thursday in a tiny town in southwestern Mississippi to dedicate a new state historical marker honoring two...
Work on Amazon warehouse fuels spike in Canton’s sales taxes
CANTON, Miss. — A Mississippi city is seeing significantly higher taxes from an Amazon warehouse that hasn’t even opened yet.
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Report: Till slaying still being investigated 65 years later
The Justice Department is continuing its investigation into the killing of Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose slaying 65 years ago in Mississippi sparked...
Video: Mississippi deputy retreated before shooting man
BILOXI, Miss. — Security camera video shows a Mississippi sheriff's deputy running backward and tripping before he fatally shot a man authorities say was...
Mississippi St shuts down Vandy again for 1st national title
OMAHA, Neb. — Will Bednar and Landon Sims combined on a one-hitter, Mississippi State scored early and built on its lead, and the Bulldogs...
‘She wasn’t a nobody’: Infant exhumed 30 years after death
For decades, the two little grave markers sat side by side in a Mississippi Coast cemetery, identified only as Baby Jane and Baby Jane...
Mississippi St beats Vandy 13-2 to send CWS finals to Game 3
OMAHA, Neb. — Houston Harding and Preston Johnson combined on a four-hitter and Mississippi State capitalized on struggling Vanderbilt pitching in a 13-2 victory...