A U.S. Navy destroyer damaged in a June collision that killed seven sailors will be repaired at a Mississippi shipyard, the Navy announced Wednesday. The USS Fitzgerald will be transported to Pascagoula for work at Ingalls Shipbuilding, part of Huntington Ingalls Industries of Newport News, ...
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 ...
High profile backers of a union at Nissan's Mississippi plant are renewing their support for the United Auto Workers. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez addressed UAW supporters by videoconference Tuesday, two days before 3,700 workers begin voting on whether ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mississippi's governor signed a law on Tuesday that allows public and private businesses to refuse service to gay couples based on the employers' religious beliefs. Gov. Phil Bryant signed the bill, despite opposition from gay-rights groups and some businesses who say it enables discrimination. Some ...
Bernie Sanders breathed new life into his longshot White House bid with a crucial win in Michigan's primary, chipping away at Hillary Clinton's dominance in the Democratic presidential race. Republican Donald Trump swept to victory in both Michigan and Mississippi, overcoming fierce efforts to ...
Mississippi's Chad Kelly was throwing touchdown passes and Laquon Treadwell was catching them in the Sugar Bowl on Friday night. No surprise there. But that touchdown run by 138-kg left tackle Laremy Tunsil, who nimbly grabbed a lateral and jogged untouched into the end zone? That ...
With a desperation fling, Chad Kelly and No. 15 Mississippi ended a quarter century of futility at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Kelly completed a deflected 66-yard touchdown pass and added two more long ones in the fourth quarter and the Rebels held on to beat No. 2 ...
The university instructor accused of killing his girlfriend and a colleague called police telling them he killed the woman at the home they shared in Mississippi, where investigators found a note saying "I am so sorry," police said Tuesday. Police in Gautier said they found ...
