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An autopsy of a man accused of killing a Roman Catholic priest and taking the victim's car on a family vacation to Walt Disney World shows he died in a jailhouse suicide.
Pardon files are missing or don't exist for four convicted killers and another man who worked as trusties at the Governor's Mansion and were pardoned by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour during his final days in office.
A Mississippi judge has delayed a decision on whether to invalidate some pardons, including of convicted killers, issued by Haley Barbour in his final days as governor.
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says two sisters released last year on the condition one donate a kidney to the other showed no remorse for their crime so they weren't included among 200 people he gave a full pardon.
Two sisters released from a Mississippi prison last year on condition that one donate a kidney to the other were saddened and disappointed they weren't among dozens receiving full pardons from the governor, one of the women said Thursday.
A federal judge in Mississippi is giving attorneys for former New Orleans Saints running back Deuce McAllister and Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. more time to negotiate a settlement in a lawsuit between them over the football star's failed Jackson auto dealership.
Leaders of an affluent northern Mississippi suburb are expected to vote Friday on a resolution asking the mayor to resign over allegations that he misspent thousands of taxpayer dollars, including some at a gay sex shop in Canada.
A lawsuit claims a Mississippi high school baseball team participated in hazing rituals that left one teenager hospitalized.
A lawyer for a man accused of killing a Catholic priest has filed a rare legal request to have the case presented to a grand jury from outside the area where the slaying happened.
A Mississippi judge has thrown out a $322 million lawsuit verdict that had been hailed as the largest asbestos award for a single plaintiff in U.S. history.
A Mississippi cancer clinic doctor who is charged with using old syringes and watered-down chemotherapy drugs now faces a lawsuit that claims a patient contracted HIV from a dirty needle.
A Mississippi man has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for threatening to kill President Barack Obama and to blow up a hospital that refused to do surgery on his wife.
A truck driver claims his prostitute fiancee suffocated as they celebrated their engagement with a meth and bondage sex party. Then he drove from California to Mississippi with the corpse in the cab of his 18-wheeler and set fire to the truck — with himself and the body inside.
The ACLU says a Mississippi school district will require students to wear caps and gowns in senior pictures after a lesbian student was left out of the yearbook for wearing a tuxedo.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered an "extensive and thorough review" of a foreign exchange program that has been used by U.S. businesses as a source of cheap labor and exploited by criminals to import women to work in the sex industry.
A lawyer for a man charged with killing a Catholic priest has filed a complaint that says his client can't get a fair trial because of a television advertisement aired by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's successful re-election campaign.
In this quiet little town where the hill country rises up from the pancake-flat Delta farmlands, reminders of the killer tornado are all around. The bent flag poles and broken crosses, snapped trees and abandoned houses, all claim a spot in the landscape now.
Toyota celebrated the start of Corolla production at its newest U.S. auto plant Thursday after a lengthy delay that the car maker blamed on a weak economy.
The lawyer for a man accused of killing a Catholic priest says his client can't get a fair trial in Mississippi because a campaign commercial in the state attorney general's race said he murdered the cleric in cold blood.
The lawyer for a man accused of killing a Catholic priest before setting out on a Disney vacation says his client can't get a fair trial in Mississippi because a campaign ad for the state's attorney general had called the suspect a cold-blooded murderer.
The State Department put a freeze Monday on expansion of a program that lines up summer jobs in the U.S. for foreign college students, citing persistent complaints about young people getting ripped off and exploited.
Before Toyota came, Cassius Perry was struggling like many in this hilly, sparsely populated region of north Mississippi that's shed thousands of furniture manufacturing jobs since the 1990s. The young father of three went to school to be a barber, but ended up working for a salvage company while he held out hope for something better.
Explosions from oil and natural gas tanks tucked away in isolated areas killed 44 people in the last three decades, federal regulators said Thursday as they called on companies and officials to make the storage sites safer.
The longtime mayor of a small Mississippi town who once worked as a jail warden has been charged with sexually assaulting an inmate and trying to cover it up, authorities said Tuesday.
A convicted sex offender from Colorado and a second man are charged with capital murder in a high-speed crash that killed a Mississippi police officer.
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