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International Paper Co. has settled another federal lawsuit stemming from a 2008 explosion that killed a contract worker at a Mississippi plant and injured nearly two dozen others.
Lucas "Trent" Vinson was due home from Iraq for a break in October. Instead, the 27-year-old civilian contractor's father will accompany his body on a flight back to the United States.
International Paper Co. and two brothers who were severely burned when a boiler exploded at a Mississippi plant have until Friday to submit proposals to settle a federal lawsuit.
In the Mississippi Delta, nothing spreads faster than a rumor that an armed white mob chased black thieves through a cotton field. Throw in an armored personnel carrier and a racially charged past, and it's no surprise federal investigators are checking it out.
Police had been watching Vincent Goff for years, convinced he was the masked man who sexually assaulted couples at gunpoint on the Mississippi coast. But before investigators closed in, they say Goff picked the wrong victim and was beaten nearly to death with his own rifle.
A startup automobile company plans to assemble a new fuel-efficient car in Louisiana, employing an estimated 1,400 people once production starts, state and company officials announced Wednesday.
An 11-year-old Mississippi boy accidentally killed his 9-year-old brother with a shotgun blast Tuesday as the two struggled over the gun after arguing about a video game, authorities said.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has asked a court to block renewed efforts to make public a settlement agreement between his office and insurer State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. that was part of their feud over homeowner claims from Hurricane Katrina.
Right or wrong, Frank Melton did things his way.
The mayor of Mississippi's largest city died early Thursday, less than two days after losing a re-election bid in a contentious Democratic primary that came a week before his second federal trial. He was 60.
Frank Melton, the mayor of Mississippi's largest city, died early Thursday, two days after losing a primary re-election bid and days before he was set to stand trial on federal civil rights charges. He was 60.
The mayor of Mississippi's largest city died early Thursday, less than two days after losing a primary re-election bid overshadowed by federal prosecution efforts to convict him in a 2007 sledgehammer raid on an alleged crackhouse. He was 60.
A federal lawsuit that claims two Mississippi companies lured foreign workers to the United States with false promises of good jobs then forced them to live in storage buildings is "unfounded and false," a company president said.
Three young friends were drinking on a summer night in 2000 when their speeding sports car blew a tire and careered off a rural Mississippi highway, killing one and injuring the other two.
For some workers from South America, the opportunity sounded too good to be true: high-paying jobs at a major shipyard in the United States and help obtaining temporary work visas. According to a federal lawsuit, it was.
A south Mississippi juvenile detention center subjects young people to physical and emotional abuse, forcing them to live in squalid cells infested with insects and the stench of human excrement, a federal lawsuit alleged Monday.
Authorities investigating how machine guns, pistols and marijuana disappeared from a police department in a Mississippi Delta town say they have uncovered a ring of prison inmates and a county worker who planned to sell the stolen weapons in Chicago.
Down here in the Deep South, calls to bring back the hanging noose are coming from an unlikely source: a 62-year-old, black Republican mayoral candidate in Mississippi's largest city.
The embattled mayor of Mississippi's largest city is suing to get back on the ballot for a Democratic primary in May.
The outspoken mayor of Jackson could face another trial after a judge declared a mistrial Tuesday on charges that he led a vigilante-style sledgehammer attack on a suspected crack house.
Truth is, most of Earnest Lee Hargon's people had been wiped out by the time he went to death row, and those who knew the family weren't sorry to see him go.
A judge known for successfully prosecuting a white supremacist decades after a civil rights-era killing pleaded not guilty Thursday to five federal charges in an unrelated judicial bribery scheme that has snared some of the state's wealthiest attorneys.
Prosecutors asked a judge Monday to jail the mayor of Mississippi's largest city during his trial for destroying a suspected crack house with a sledgehammer.
A federal appeals court agreed Friday to hear arguments that a reputed Ku Klux Klansman's conviction in the abductions of two black teenagers found slain in 1964 should not have been overturned.
A Mississippi mayor charged with demolishing an alleged crack house tried to bribe police officers called to testify before a grand jury about the incident, prosecutors allege in court documents filed this week.
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