Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040 because of federal policy changes since President Donald Trump returned to office, according to modeling released Friday by a nonpartisan think tank...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi's attorney general said she will not retry a former police officer after jurors failed to reach a verdict on a manslaughter charge stemming from the fatal shooting of a Black motorist. Jurors on Monday deadlocked on ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi judge set a $5 million bond Monday for a third man charged in the death of a Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in August. Police disclosed Friday that Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed in a drug disp...

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) - People crowded shoulder to shoulder upstairs in a south Alabama coffee shop, in a region sometimes called the reddest in the heavily conservative state. They were there to hear Doug Jones, the Democratic nominee for governor and t...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Tasia Fortune was apparently killed in a drug dispute before her body was hung in a tree in a "staged" scene behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer, a detective testified Friday. Fortune was killed in a ...

BRUSSELS (AP) - The European Union's executive arm said Friday it's prepared to defend a 120 million euro ($137 million) fine against the social media platform X after the U.S. government threw its support behind a legal effort by Elon Musk this week...

A drug task force in Mississippi is urging people to avoid kratom after authorities found packages of the substance while investigating the deaths of two University of Mississippi students. The warning Tuesday came despite no "confirmed information" ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Civil rights attorney Ben Crump released information from a forensic examination of Nolan Wells' cellphone as well as details of the official autopsy Thursday, just days after a Mississippi grand jury said it found no evidence o...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - 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. Jackson police said late Tuesday that they arrested 25-year-old Earn...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A grand jury has declined to recommend charges in the death of Nolan Wells, a Black college student who was found dead two days after a July 4 boat trip and party on an island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The district attorne...