Mississippi News

Top AIDS scientists were optimistic Wednesday of finding a cure for the disease that has claimed 30 million lives -- but said it might not work for all people.

Camp Shelby's annual Laying of the Wreaths Ceremony scheduled Thursday will include a special ceremony for the family of Sgt.

The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report .

As the United Auto Workers continue to try to win a union organization vote at Canton's Nissan plant, they and their friends have begun public outpourings of crocodile tears over Mississippi's economic development incentives utilized to bring the global automaker to the state.

Meridian City Council members Mary Perry and Jesse Palmer were attending Tuesday night's council meeting as the last votes were being cast in the run-off elections.

The Storm Prediction Center issued a tornado watch from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. CDT Tuesday covering 34 counties including Attala, Holmes, Humphreys, Washington, Choctaw, Webster, Montgomery, Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Monroe, Chickasaw, Calhoun, Yalobusha, Tallahatchie, Sunflower, Bolivar, Itawamba, Lee, Pontotoc, Union, Lafayette, Panola, Quitman, ... (more)

An approaching line of intense thunderstorms with a history of producing widespread wind damage has prompted the Storm Prediction Center to issue a severe thunderstorm watch for much of central Mississippi .

A line of damaging wind storms raced across portions of northern and central Mississippi Tuesday night, leaving thousands without power.

Kenny Glavan is the new councilman for Biloxi Ward 6. He beat incumbent Ed Gemmill by a large majority.

My old friend Ray Smithhart would have loved the irony of union-fighting manufacturer Nissan making a gift of $100,000 to the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute.

Young corn had emerged in late April at Mississippi State University's Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville.

East Central High School, whose class motto is "It's not how you start, it's how you finish," graduated 165 seniors Tuesday at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum.

In the fallout from the recent revelations about the Internal Revenue Service systematically persecuting conservative political groups and other enemies of President Obama, the establishment is putting on a good show of being shocked by the behavior.

Rep. Michael McCaul , the House Homeland Security Committee chairman, predicted Monday night that the fallout from Benghazi will haunt Hillary Clinton if she runs for president.

St. Martin High School graduates were told by class historian Bryson Krause, "Don't cry because it's over; smile because it's not." Two hundred and sixty-seven students at St.

The Jackson County Board of Supervisors named three nominees to the Tri-County Tourism Board of Supervisors for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau at its meeting Monday.

The Mississippi Development Authority says Tuesday's scheduled press briefing regarding recently-enacted energy legislation has been postponed until next month.

A federal appeals panel has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a group of Mississippi Gulf Coast residents and landowners who alleged that emissions by energy companies contributed to global warming, which intensified Hurricane Katrina, which, in turn, damaged their property.

The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's redistricting.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker lead a list of speakers for the American Legion's Boys State on the campus of Mississippi State University this month.