More severe weather could be on its way to the US state of Mississippi following the tornadoes which killed 26 people, the governor has warned.
Governor Tate Reeves said significant risks remained in parts of the state.
Hundreds of people have been (...)
Rescue efforts are under way in Mississippi and Alabama after a tornado tore through the two states on Friday night killing 26 people, including a baby and her father.
Emergency services will have to dig through the debris left behind by the (...)
At least 23 people have died after a tornado tore through the US state of Mississippi on Friday night.
More people are thought to be trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
The twister caused devastation in several rural towns, where trees (...)
Parts of the South are running out of oxygen supply as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue soaring, primarily driven by the swaths of people who remain unvaccinated and a dangerous coronavirus variant that has been tirelessly infecting (...)
A freight train crashed into a bus full of Texas tourists visiting Gulf Coast casinos, killing four in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Forty people were hurt, seven critically. The cause of the Tuesday afternoon crash was under investigation.
Witnesses told (...)
PGA Tour rookie Cody Gribble blew away the field with a closing seven-under 65 to win the Sanderson Farms Championship by four strokes in Mississippi on Sunday.
Gribble, in his eighth start on tour, bolted clear of a tight leaderboard with a (...)
In Mississippi, a small team of entomologists has begun the first survey of mosquito populations in decades. Experts do not believe the kind of mosquitoes most likely to carry the Zika virus are active in the state, but they cannot know for sure.
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Peter Malnati churned through the Mississippi mud to clinch a one-stroke victory at the $4.1 million Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson Monday.
In his 22nd start on the PGA Tour, Malnati sank a three-foot par putt at the last to card 67 and (...)
Timochin Hassan earned 71.41 masterpoints — the metric of accomplishment in the world of bridge — during the 2011 calendar year securing him the Ace of Clubs Regional Manager award for the American Contract Bridge League's (ACBL) District 99 (...)
Troy Matteson finished a storm-swept day at the Viking Classic home and dry with the clubhouse lead, neck and neck with George McNeill.
Matteson birdied his final three holes of the day after a delay of nearly four hours, capitalizing on the (...)
clad ambassador was pulled from an airport security line and patted down by a security agent in Mississippi after attending a conference, an act one state agency official called “unfortunate.” The hands-on search last week also embarrassed the (...)
A rare auction of signed William Faulkner books and personal items has drawn international interest, but few on the town square of the author's hometown were aware of the bidding set for Tuesday at Christie's in New York.
It's not as if Oxford's (...)
Rescuers combed neighborhoods of splintered homes in Mississippi, ferrying the injured on all-terrain vehicles where roads were impassable after a devastating tornado sliced through the state and killed at least 10 people, including three (...)
Morgan Freeman's attorney claims a woman who was with the actor when he wrecked a car in Mississippi last August was partly to blame for the accident, though he won't elaborate.
Demaris Meyer is suing Freeman in US District Court in Oxford, (...)
Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Governor of Riyadh region, attended here on Friday a graduation ceremony of Prince Lieutenant Pilot Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, after successfully completing the program of military aviation at Columbus Military (...)
Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama focused on the economy in the shadow of the US financial crisis in a first presidential debate that also crackled with sharp disputes over Iraq and terrorism.
While snap opinion polls made Obama an (...)
Marc Turnesa carded a six-under-par 66 Saturday to stay atop the leaderboard after the third round of the $3.6 million Viking Classic.
With a 54-hole total of 17-under 199, Turnesa was two shots clear of Brian Gay and Will MacKenzie, who both (...)
If the Green Bay Packers are ravaged by injuries this season, retired quarterback Brett Favre might consider returning should the NFL team reach out to him.
“It would be hard to pass up, I guess,' he told the Biloxi Sun Herald. “But three months (...)
lying areas to leave their homes and many heeded the warning, streaming away in long lines of cars all day Saturday and draining gas stations dry.
"We've deployed a lot of resources. We've pre-positioned medical, water, food, other kinds of (...)