NEW YORK (AP) - Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer has died. She was 70. Dubbed America's best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice, which expanded th...

The police chief of a northern Mississippi city where 1-year-old Black child Kohen Wiley was shot and killed by police responding to a shoplifting call was fired Tuesday amid a new controversy. Senatobia Police Chief Harold Vanderford submitted his ...

LAUREL, Miss. - A large fire at Howard Industries in Laurel prompted the evacuation of employees Monday afternoon as firefighters from across Jones County responded to the scene. Multiple fire departments were called to the Howard Industries facility as crews worked to contain the blaze. According to a statement from L...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In the chaos of Hurricane Katrina, Charity Hospital in New Orleans became a scene of heartbreak and heroism, with doctors scrambling to keep patients alive without power or functioning medical equipment while floodwaters trapped th...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Voting rights, the work of the Civil Rights Movement and racial justice took center stage on the National Mall Friday, with protesters gathering ahead of midterm elections and following a wave of changes to voting laws and redistric...

The Southeastern Conference passed a rule Tuesday banning players who have been drafted by NFL, NBA or WNBA teams or listed on rosters in those leagues, joining the Big Ten in taking a strong stand against an unexpected surge of pro players trying to...

NEW YORK (AP) - It happened out of necessity. Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman was in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 25 years ago when some out-of-towners asked where they could hear blues music. Musicians were abundant; venues were not. "There was no p...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - 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. Police have ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Health officials in Louisiana are urging beachgoers to take precautions during a summertime surge in infections from a flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters. Louisiana has confirmed nine cases of Vibrio vulnificus infe...

The battle for control of the U.S. Senate isn't supposed to run through Mississippi. Scott Colom is trying to convince people that it could. "We can win here, and we're going to," said Colom, the Democratic nominee who's trying to unseat Republican ...