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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.
Bill filed in Miss. seeks to nullify federal laws
Mississippi defied the union during the Civil War and civil rights era, and at least two lawmakers think it is time to do so again. Republican state ...
40 years after Roe, states seek to limit abortions
Ever since a 40-year-old Supreme Court decision found that abortions are legal in some circumstances, state legislatures across the country have been ...
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 ...
Roe v Wade: After 40 years, deep divide is legacy
By today's politically polarized standards, the Supreme Court's momentous Roe v. Wade ruling was a landslide. By a 7-2 vote on Jan. 22, 1973, the ...
Sheriffs, state lawmakers push back on gun control
From Oregon to Mississippi, President Barack Obama's proposed ban on new assault weapons and large-capacity magazines struck a nerve among rural ...
Christmas Day storms blamed for 3 deaths
Twisters hopscotched across the Deep South, and, along with brutal, straight-line winds, knocked down countless trees, blew the roofs off homes and ...
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 ...
GOP-led states start warming up to health care law
From the South to the heartland, cracks are appearing in the once-solid wall of Republican resistance to President Barack Obama's health care law.
Miss. says no thanks to Medicaid expansion dollars
Mississippi has long been one of the sickest and poorest states in America, with some of the highest rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease and ...
Days after Isaac, flooding and outages remain
Much of a finger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still ...
Isaac threat to Gulf Coast well beyond New Orleans
With its massive size and ponderous movement, Tropical Storm Isaac was gaining strength Monday as it headed toward the Gulf Coast. The next 24 hours ...
Hurricanes hold election-year peril for candidates
Politicians know every hurricane means avoiding disaster — including their own. Intent on showing the empathy and crisis leadership voters want, ...
Despite Isaac's soaking, Keys residents laid back
Tropical Storm Isaac barely stirred Florida Keys residents from their fabled nonchalance Sunday, while the Gulf Coast braced for the possibility that ...
Republicans in beachfront hotels brace for Isaac
The beachfront hotels that a few lucky delegations scored for the Republican National Convention are all of a sudden a point of concern as Tropical ...