NAACP board honors Evers' memory in Miss. capital
NAACP leaders from around the country are honoring the memory of the group's former Mississippi leader, Medgar Evers, nearly 50 years after he was ...
Only Miss. abortion clinic gets license reprieve
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Mississippi from revoking the license of the state's only abortion clinic. U.S. District Judge Daniel P.
Rock and soul songwriter George Jackson dies at 68
Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of "Old Time Rock and Roll" and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68.

Medgar Evers to be remembered 50 years after death
The widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was killed by a white supremacist outside his Jackson, Miss., home in 1963, laments that her ...
Device to scare birds causes Guard base lockdown
After a report of gunfire, Air National Guard officials locked down a Mississippi base on Wednesday, but the noise thought to be shots turned out to ...

APNewsBreak: Video shows Miss. police HQ deaths
Authorities have a video from a police interrogation room that shows a murder suspect shooting a detective to death before killing himself with the ...

Investigators: Miss. suspect used detective's gun
The police detective killed while interrogating a murder suspect at department headquarters in Mississippi's capital city was shot four times before ...

Investigators: Suspect shot officer, then himself
A murder suspect shot a police detective who was interviewing him at police headquarters in Mississippi's capital city, then shot himself, state ...

Miss. cop, suspect shot, killed inside police HQ
Stunned police officials in Jackson, Miss., are trying to determine how a suspect was able to shoot and kill a homicide detective inside an ...

Severe storms, large hail pummel parts of South
Severe thunderstorms Monday raked across a wide area of the South, packing strong winds, rain and some baseball-size hail. In Mississippi, authorities ...
Correction: Mississippi Candidate Killed story
In multiple stories about the killing of Mississippi mayoral candidate Marco McMillian, The Associated Press incorrectly reported his age, based on ...

Man charged in slaying of Miss. mayoral candidate
A 22-year-old man was charged with murder Thursday in the death of a mayoral candidate, whose body was found near a river levee in the Mississippi ...

People search for sentimental items after twister
Brian Bernard has spent hours since Sunday's tornado sifting through the wreckage of his family's house in search of his daughter's flute. It's not ...
Only Miss. abortion clinic gets license warning
Mississippi's only abortion clinic said it received notice Friday that the state Health Department intends to revoke its operating license.

40 years after Roe v. Wade, abortion foes march on
Abortion opponents marked the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision Tuesday with workshops, prayers and calls for more limits on the rights ...
Report: Miss. school discipline too hard on kids
Civil rights advocates say harsh disciplinary practices at many Mississippi schools lead to children being expelled and even incarcerated for minor ...
Faulkner estate settles lawsuit over newspaper ad
The estate of William Faulkner has settled a copyright lawsuit against Northrop Grumman Corp. and The Washington Post Co. for using a Faulkner quote ...
5 children, 1 adult die in Mississippi wreck
Five young siblings and one adult died early Saturday when a sport utility vehicle went off an eastern Mississippi road and plunged into a ...

Electoral College vote affirms Obama re-election
Tradition trumped suspense Monday as members of the Electoral College cast the official, final votes in the 2012 presidential election, a ...
Miss. state high court building briefly evacuated
The Mississippi Supreme Court and Court of Appeals have been briefly evacuated after a bomb threat but no explosives were found. Courts spokeswoman ...
1 more guilty of hate crime in Miss. rundown case
A fourth man pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday in the death of a black man who was run over by a pickup truck in Mississippi, and ...