Ex-fighter pilot who endured torture in ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison where McCain was held dies at 82

Pilot who endured torture at ‘Hanoi Hilton’ dies

Michigan police say 6-foot, 300-pound bald man stole family’s turkey right out of freezer

Police seek bald man who swiped family’s turkey

FBI seeks public’s help to find relatives in of those killed in civil rights cold cases

FBI wants public’s help in civil rights killings

‘Ghosts of Mississippi’ prosecutor turned judge faces prison for lying to FBI in bribery probe

Famed Miss. judge faces prison for lying to FBI

Attorney reaches deal in long-running fraud suit against once-powerful litigator Scruggs

Settlement reached in fraud suit against Scruggs

Miss. Supreme Court sides with pharmacists in complaint against Medicaid over reimbursements

Miss. high court: Medicaid erred on pharmacy rule

Lingering interest in bluesman Robert Johnson spawns project to restore home where he was born

Officials to restore birthplace of Robert Johnson

Utility regulators say Mississippi Power Co. proved need for more generating capacity

Miss. regulators, utility agree more power needed

House Roll Call: How they voted on abortion funding prohibition

House Roll Call: How they voted on abortion issue

How House members voted on health care bill

House Roll Call: Health care

The 220-215 roll call Saturday by which the House passed a Democratic-written health care bill.

Mississippi governor’s son scores 2 holes-in-one in single round on Virginia course

Miss. gov’s son scores 2 holes-in-one in one round

Barbour says Mississippi governors need more power to slash spending when money runs short

Barbour: Miss. gov needs more power to cut budget

Court records show Morgan Freeman has settled lawsuit from woman injured in 2008 car wreck

Records: Morgan Freeman settles suit on car wreck

Miss. gov: No special session yet as company works to resolve issue with $300M plant proposal

Miss. gov: Company working on $300M plant plan

Veteran Mississippi and Alabama newspaper editor and publisher Ed Darling retires

Veteran journalist Darling announces retirement

Governor says special session delayed but 500-job project still planned for Mississippi Delta

Miss. governor: Economic special session postponed

Mississippi’s Jackson State Foundation breaks ground on multimillion-dollar project

Miss. foundation breaks ground on building project

Western lawmakers find little consensus at energy symposium in Jackson, Wyoming

Western lawmakers wrap up Wyoming energy symposium

Western state lawmakers consider regional collaboration on technology for carbon storage

Western lawmakers focus on regional collaboration

Wyo. governor talks energy with Western lawmakers, says competition works against cooperation

Wyo. governor talks energy with Western lawmakers

Mike McQueen, AP chief of bureau for Louisiana and Mississippi, dies at 52

AP bureau chief Mike McQueen dies at 52

NEW ORLEANS — Mike McQueen, chief of bureau for The Associated Press in Louisiana and Mississippi, has died. He was 52.

Miss. governor to call lawmakers into special session on economic development project

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Wednesday he will call lawmakers into special session late next week to consider incentives for a company to develop a $300 million manufacturing plant in the Delta, one of the poorest parts of the state.

Official suggests consolidating school districts, as Economic Council hears cost-cutting ideas

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi can’t afford to keep all 152 school districts, eight public universities and an extensive system of community and junior colleges, a leading Democrat on the state budget committee said Wednesday.

Car plant in Tunica may be topic for rumored special session of Mississippi Legislature

JACKSON, Miss. — Several Mississippi lawmakers say they’ve heard a special session is possible in the next couple of weeks, with speculation that it would involve incentives for a proposed auto plant in Tunica County, but Gov. Haley Barbour has not made an announcement.

Georgia executes man convicted of killing Domino’s Pizza store manager, stealing about $100

JACKSON, Ga. — A man who fatally shot a pizza store manager during a 1994 robbery in which he stole a little more than $100 to give to his girlfriend has been executed by lethal injection.

Casey Jones Museum opens at Jackson, where village proclaims railroader’s fame

JACKSON, Tenn. — Railroad engineer Casey Jones rode to glory and into American folklore trying to stop his Illinois Central passenger train before it hit a stalled freight train in 1900.

Mississippi coastal town hopes post-Katrina tax base will recover as an unlikely hero emerges

JACKSON, Miss. — On the morning the Walmart reopened this week in Pass Christian, rain canceled a small parade Mayor Chipper McDermott had planned, so folks stood inside the store and handed out gaudy Mardi Gras beads instead of throwing them from a float.

House Roll Call: How they voted on Gitmo detainees

The 224-193 roll call Thursday by which the House rejected a Republican effort to block the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the U.S. for trial.

Lesbian student in Mississippi fights to get photo of her in tuxedo in high school yearbook

JACKSON, Miss. — Everyone at Wesson Attendance Center knows 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis is gay because she’s never tried to hide it.

Navy names cargo ship in honor of slain Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers

JACKSON, Miss. — The widow of slain civil-rights pioneer Medgar Evers fought tears Friday as Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, a former Mississippi governor, announced he’s naming a new Navy supply ship for Evers’ late husband.

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