Mississippi

The founder of a midwifery clinic in Mississippi’s capital is trying to open the state’s first birth center. As state Republican officials are trying to ban abortion and await a ruling that could overturn Roe v. Wade, Sisters in Birth CEO Getty Israel says nothing is being done to support women who choose to give birth.

During the trial, the victim cried as she testified that Jacob Blair Scott sexually assaulted her at least 30 times beginning in 2016 and ending in 2017 when she learned she was pregnant.

The retired NFL quarterback has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing, and last year repaid appearance fees allegedly paid using misspent funds.

Authorities say the possible suspect in the fatal shooting of three people at a Mississippi Gulf Coast motel and subsequent death of a person shot during a carjacking was found dead after a standoff with police.

Severe storms and a possible tornado damaged buildings and downed power lines in northwest Arkansas early Wednesday as tornadoes and hurricane-force winds were forecast in much of the Deep South, a week after severe storms struck the New Orleans area.

Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

The superintendent of the Hinds County School District in Mississippi said Toby Price showed “a lack of professionalism and impaired judgment”

Attorneys for a Black delivery driver are calling for a federal hate crimes investigation into the attempted shooting of the driver in Mississippi

Life expectancy is highest in Hawaii and lowest in Mississippi, according to a recently published CDC report.

The top administrator for the Mississippi House answered a question that has been all the buzz at the state Capitol: Where’s Bilbo?

State-by-state battles over the future of abortion are setting up around the U.S. Republican lawmakers are proposing new restrictions based on laws in Texas and Mississippi and some Democratic-led states are working to preserve access

In the letter from Southaven Middle School sent Tuesday, parents received information about helping girls develop a healthy body image. The school’s solution? Shapewear, in part.

Sites associated with Black history in five Southern states will each receive grants of $50,000 from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a liberal advocacy group based in Alabama.

Amazon’s CamperForce program for nomadic workers doubled this year. Here’s what it’s really like to live in an RV and work at Amazon during the holidays.

Authorities have uncovered the remains of a Mississippi woman following a tip from an inmate who revealed the location of her body prior to his execution last month

“If you have access to money to take a plane or take a train or go somewhere where abortion is safe and legal, you’ll do that,” says Kim Wehle, professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She says if the Supreme Court guts Roe v. Wade, “you just might not have any option but to carry a child...

With the U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments about Mississippi’s abortion law and another in Texas, “there is pretty much no question that abortion rights will be cut back. The question is to what extent,” says University of Miami professor Caroline Mala Corbin.

Anti-abortion petitioners in the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health argue that Roe v. Wade should be overturned.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority justices are signaling they will allow states to ban abortion much earlier in pregnancy

A Lyft driver who was kidnapped by a teen rider, shot seven times and left in the Mississippi woods said she gathered strength to drag herself to safety by thinking of her loved ones