Greenville woman held after child’s body found in oven
A Greenville woman has been arrested in the death of her 3-year-old son, whose body was found in an oven.
Eat-and-run charge against Gary Collins dismissed
A judge has dismissed charges against actor Gary Collins for allegedly leaving a Biloxi restaurant without paying his bill.
NAACP sues over redistricting in Miss. counties
Local branches of the NAACP have filed lawsuits that seek to extend election qualifying deadlines in more than a dozen Mississippi counties until voting boundaries can be redrawn based on new census information.
Preliminary magnitude 4.7 earthquake in Arkansas; felt in Mississippi
Residents across Arkansas and in Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee and Mississippi reported on the U.S.G.S. website that they felt the quake.
Dead or alive? A glance at bills in the Miss. Legislature
Here’s a glance at the status of selected bills in the Mississippi Legislature. Thursday was the deadline for the House and Senate to act on general bills filed in their own chamber.
Four die in north Miss. fire
Four people have died in a mobile home fire Friday south of Crenshaw on Mississippi Highway 3 on the Panola-Quitman county line.
Ala. coated with snow, but few problems reported
The latest round of winter weather to hit north Alabama dumped as much as 4½ inches of snow in some areas but didn’t cause many major problems Thursday.
New racially charged words at Univ. of Alabama
Disparaging words about several ethnic and racial groups were written in chalk on a University of Alabama sidewalk, the school said Wednesday, the second time in less than a week officials have had to deal with such language.
Miss. Senate OKs two animal cruelty bills
The Mississippi Senate passed two bills Wednesday aimed at strengthening the state’s animal cruelty law by making it a felony to maliciously injure, torture or kill a cat or dog.
MSU proposes nursing program at Meridian campus
Mississippi State University has asked the state College Board to approve a nursing program for its Meridian campus.
Students ‘in shock’ after deadly school bus accident
A tractor-trailer sideswiped a school bus then collided head-on with a second Tuesday, killing the trucker, a bus driver and a teacher and injuring at least 17 high school students along a rural highway bridge in northern Mississippi, authorities said.
Butch Brown ousted as MDOT director
Within moments of taking office Tuesday, a new Mississippi transportation commissioner voted with one his colleagues to give embattled agency director Larry “Butch” Brown an ultimatum: Resign by Wednesday or be fired.
Ala. senator says ’empty clip’ remark not violent
An Alabama legislator who told a Republican audience it was time to “empty the clip” when addressing illegal immigration said Tuesday he wasn’t advocating violence, but others found his remarks frightening and reckless after a deadly Arizona rampage.
Senate OKs ban on texting while driving
The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill that would ban texting while driving.
Miss. Senate reconsiders, passes deer breeding bill
The Mississippi Senate has reconsidered and passed a bill that would allow genetically enhanced deer on breeding farms in the state.
Dead or alive? A glance at bills in the Miss. Legislature
Here’s a glance at the status of selected bills in the Mississippi Legislature. Tuesday was the deadline for House and Senate committees to act on general bills filed in their own chamber. There is a later deadline for budget and revenue bills.
Carcasses of 50 animals found dumped in creek
Authorities are trying to find out who dumped the carcasses of nearly 50 dogs and several cats in a creek in north Mississippi.
Starkville’s Tagert wins transportation commission runoff
Mike Tagert has defeated John Caldwell Sr. in Tuesday’s runoff for northern district transportation commissioner.
Ala. deaths from tree stand falls at all-time high
Alabama authorities say the state has recorded its highest number of deaths from hunters falling from tree stands.
Barbour juggles White House hopes, state’s past
Haley Barbour’s folksy style and savvy leadership have made the two-term Mississippi governor a serious contender early in the wide-open contest for the Republican presidential nomination. Yet the 63-year-old has shown a penchant for airbrushing his state’s segregationist past.
