The river that drains much of the flood-soaked United States is still running higher than normal, menacing New Orleans in multiple ways just as the hurricane season intensifies. For months now, a massive volume of water has been pushing against the levees keeping a city ...
The timing of a string of immigration enforcement raids at Mississippi food processing plants last week was "unfortunate," but the actions had been planned for over a year, the top U.S. Homeland Security official said on Sunday. Kevin McAleenan, acting secretary of the Department of ...
Mississippi ICE sweep nets 680: Immigration raids leave migrant kids begging for parents' return
Raids by immigration authorities that swept up 680 migrants in the southern state of Mississippi left their children to fend for themselves with the help of friends and neighbors. The raids, which targeted seven food processing plants in six Mississippi cities on Wednesday, were believed ...
Mississippi governor signs 'heartbeat' abortion law, prompting threatened suit
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Thursday signed one of the strictest abortion laws in the nation — a measure that bans most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, about six weeks into pregnancy. The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights called the measure ...
Nissan to cut up to 700 contract workers in Mississippi as van and pickup truck sales sag
Nissan Motor Co. announced Thursday that it's cutting up to 700 contract workers at its Mississippi assembly plant, citing slowing sales for vans and Titan pickup trucks that it makes there. The move follows Nissan's December announcement that it's cutting 1,000 jobs at two Mexican ...
Toyota Motor Corp. announced Thursday that it will invest $170 million and add 400 jobs at its Mississippi assembly plant as it shifts some production of the Corolla sedan from Canada. The company said it will retool the Blue Springs plant beginning later this year ...
Collision-crippled Navy ship USS Fitzgerald to arrive Friday at Mississippi shipyard
A U.S. Navy destroyer damaged in a June collision that killed seven sailors is expected to arrive at a Mississippi shipyard Friday. Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula announced the USS Fitzgerald's arrival Thursday, inviting area residents to wave flags as the ship is carried up the ...
Mississippi shows promise as Toyota and Mazda seek U.S. location for new auto assembly plant
As Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. begin to scour the U.S. in search of a location for the first new auto assembly plant announced since President Donald Trump took power, one state looks like a front-runner: Mississippi. The Magnolia State is already home ...
After stormy relationship, Mississippi man held in slaying of partner, her son, mom, sister
A man who lived in a rural home with his romantic partner, her young son, her mother and her sister was arrested on murder charges after all four were found shot to death, authorities said Wednesday. Authorities who broke through the door to discover the ...
Black Mississippi church torched, 'Vote Trump' sprayed on ruins in apparent hate crime
A Mississippi mayor is calling it a hate crime as arson investigators collect evidence at a black church that was heavily damaged by fire and tagged with "Vote Trump" in silver spray paint. The Tuesday night fire heavily damaged the 200-member Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church ...
Case now closed, 1964 'Mississippi Burning' executions bared KKK terror
Federal and state authorities said this week they're ending the investigation of the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" killings, one of the most infamous cases in the violent backlash to the civil rights movement. Tuesday marked 52 years since Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman were ...
Grisham, 94 other Mississippi authors demand anti-LGBT law be repealed
John Grisham and Donna Tartt are among 95 Mississippi authors urging state officials to repeal a law that will let workers cite religious beliefs to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people. The writers said in a letter released Monday that House Bill ...
