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Sheriff: Gang started prison riot in Mississippi
As many as 300 inmates, some of them armed with makeshift weapons such as broomsticks, rioted at a privately run prison for illegal immigrants, ...
Neighbors: Highway shooting suspect a regular guy
To hear his neighbors tell it, James Willie was just a regular guy who sometimes played with the neighborhood kids. Police describe him as a ...
Lawrie joins list of baseball's wildest rants
Helmet tossing and bat banging have become all the rage, it seems. Yet suspended Toronto infielder Brett Lawrie and injured Washington teen phenom ...
Detective: Video shows Miss. murder-for-hire plan
A well-known Mississippi oncologist accused of orchestrating a plot to kill his ex-wife's divorce lawyer said he wanted a picture of the slain ...
US honors black federal law officer killed in 1883
William Henderson Foote was a black federal law enforcement official in America's Deep South at a time of heightened racial tensions, tasked with ...
Rescued girl tells sister: 'Now we can go home'
Days of searching for two young girls and the kidnapper who killed their mother and sister led to the kind of terrain that favors the hunted — high ...
Authorities: Kidnapped girls didn't eat for days
Hope was fading that two young sisters abducted from their Tennessee home would be found alive two weeks after they vanished: Their kidnapper had ...
Kidnap-slaying suspect kills himself; 2 girls OK
A man wanted by the FBI for killing a mother and daughter and kidnapping two other girls shot himself to death as officers closed in, but the two ...
Police: Kidnap-slaying suspect slain; 2 girls OK
As a SWAT team closed in, a fugitive accused of killing a Tennessee mother and daughter before disappearing for nearly two weeks with her two other ...
Review: No real point to Foursquare, yet addictive
It took a return to the South to get me back on Foursquare. Months later, I'm still not sure why I need it, yet I can't seem to stay away.
Relative: Kidnap suspect claimed girls were his
A Mississippi man killed a Tennessee mother and her teenage daughter so he could abduct two young sisters who are still missing, according to court ...
Wife, mother of kidnap-slaying suspect arrested
As the hunt continued for a Mississippi man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter before fleeing with her two younger girls, ...
Alleged kidnapper of Tenn. mom, 3 girls was friend
A man accused of abducting a mother and her three daughters was a family friend described as being like an uncle to the girls. Now Adam Mayes, 35, is ...
2 bodies found in Miss. amid search for mom, girls
Two unidentified bodies have been found at a Mississippi residence associated with a man suspected of abducting a Tennessee woman and her three young ...
Police: Doc behind failed plot to kill ex's lawyer
It wasn't a secret that Dr. Ralph Arnold Smith Jr. was still angry at the attorney who represented his ex-wife during their divorce in the mid-1990s.
Riverboat resumes nostalgic cruises on Mississippi
The churning red paddlewheel propels the pearl-white steamboat along the wide Mississippi River, like a slow-moving time machine through a slice of ...
More families building their own tornado shelters
When deadly twisters chewed through the South and Midwest in 2011, thousands of people in the killers' paths had nowhere to hide. Now many of those ...
Ex-Miss. mayor sentenced in inmate sex case
A former Mississippi mayor and prison warden has been sentenced to seven months behind bars for telling an inmate to lie to investigators about sex ...
Students keep drunks from drowning in Wis. city
It's time to party on Third Street. Music pulses from bars late into the night. Young women in shorts and halter tops hustle down the sidewalks.
New law targets lone abortion clinic in Miss.
Mississippi's abortion laws, already among the strictest in the nation, are poised to become even tighter after a push by social conservatives to shut ...
Suspect in 3 Mississippi slayings falls to death
Authorities say a man killed his mother, stepfather and girlfriend at their Mississippi home before he climbed a cellphone tower and plunged about 300 ...
Jerry Lee Lewis weds for 7th time in Mississippi
Rock 'n' roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis has married for a seventh time in Mississippi, and the new bride is his cousin's ex-wife. The Adams County ...
Congregants wear hoodies, remember Trayvon Martin
Wearing hooded sweatshirts similar to the one that Trayvon Martin wore on the night he was killed, many preachers and worshippers echoed calls for ...
Student shot to death on Mississippi State campus
Mississippi State University officials say the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old student in a campus dorm appears to be isolated. University president ...