CAFB identifies student pilot killed in Montgomery crash
Columbus Air Force Base officials have identified the student pilot killed in a plane crash Friday in Montgomery, Alabama.
CAFB student, instructor pilots killed in Montgomery crash
UPDATE: Columbus Air Force Base officials have identified the instructor pilot killed in a plane crash in Montgomery, Alabama, on Friday night.
Highway patrolman involved in minor fender bender with civilian
No one was injured in a car crash involving a Mississippi Highway Patrolman on Highway 69 in east Columbus Wednesday.
Report: Senator’s blood alcohol was almost twice legal limit
A top Mississippi lawmaker registered a blood alcohol level of almost twice the legal limit after his Dec. 19 drunken driving arrest.
Mississippi senator’s arrest could create leadership fight
A leadership showdown is developing in the Mississippi Senate after its second-ranking official was arrested this week for the third time on suspicion of drunken driving.
State senator faces DUI charge after wreck near Starkville
A state senator is facing a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol after his truck went into a ditch near Starkville.
Report: Propeller blade broke, causing military plane crash
Investigators say bad maintenance practices at a Georgia air force base missed a deteriorating propeller blade that broke off six years later as a U.S. Marine Corps transport plane cruised over Mississippi at 20,000 feet, causing the KC-130T to break into pieces and plunge into a soybean field, killing 15 Marines and a Navy corpsman.
Storm: 2 dead, 44 hurt in bus crash on icy Mississippi road
An Alabama tour bus bound for a Mississippi casino overturned Wednesday on an icy highway, leaving two people dead and 44 others aboard with injuries, authorities said, as a pre-winter storm blasted parts of the South and lower Midwest.
Two pilots involved in T-38 crash released from hospital Wednesday
Two Columbus Air Force Base pilots who ejected from a T-38C Talon II before it crashed outside the base Wednesday morning were released from Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle, CAFB spokespeople confirmed Wednesday.
CAFB pilots released from hospital after crash
Two Columbus Air Force Base pilots who ejected from a T-38C Talon II before it crashed outside the base Wednesday morning have been released from Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle, CAFB spokespeople confirmed.
Clay County Car chase ends in wreck in Oktibbeha County
Two people were hospitalized Sunday after a car chase with law enforcement ended in a wreck on Hickory Road in Oktibbeha County late Sunday morning.
Three die in Monroe County crash Tuesday
Three people have died after a head-on collision that engulfed both cars in flames in Monroe County Tuesday evening.
Navy: Training jet flew too low — for thrills — before deadly crash
The Navy is citing pilot error for a military training jet crash in Tennessee that killed the two aboard, saying it was being flown for thrills and too low.
Russian airliner crashes moments after takeoff, killing 71
A Russian airliner that had just taken off from the country’s second-busiest airport crashed Sunday, killing all 71 people aboard and scattering jagged chunks of wreckage across a snowy field outside Moscow.
Bicyclist killed in Sunday crash
A Starkville man is dead after he was struck by a vehicle while he biked along Highway 25 Sunday.
Mardi Gras crash suspect’s alcohol level nearly triple limit
The driver accused of plowing into a crowd enjoying a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans had a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit, police said.
Russian plane crash probe rules out explosion
Flight recorders revealed no evidence of an explosion on board a Russian plane that crashed, killing all 92 on board, but investigators haven’t ruled out a deliberate mechanical impact to down the plane, a military official said today.
Dark highway scene of fatal Miss. trick-or-treating trailer crash
Every Halloween in the rural eastern Mississippi hamlet of Chunky, families and groups of friends load costumed children onto flatbed trailers and drive from house to widely spaced house for trick-or-treating.
2 children, 1 adult killed in Halloween crash
A vehicle struck a flat-bed trailer carrying adults and children who were dressed up for Halloween, killing three people and injuring several others in a small Mississippi town, authorities said.
NTSB: Balloon hit power lines before crashing
A hot air balloon hit high-tension power lines before crashing into a pasture in Central Texas, killing all 16 on board, according to federal authorities investigating the worst such disaster in U.S. history.