In a written settlement agreement concerning the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with a 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, BP agreed to a compensation…
A Mississippi judge is considering whether to dismiss a “depraved heart” murder charge against a woman accused of using crack cocaine, resulting in the stillbirth of her daughter.
Did ExxonMobil put Louisiana alligators on a Mississippi oil waste disposal site to help monitor the cleanliness of the land? Or did wild gators native to Mississippi simply spot a…
A yearlong national survey showed a “disturbing” amount of discrimination against deaf and hard-of-hearing would-be renters and led to the filing of nine federal fair-housing administrative complaints by advocacy groups…
A former Mississippi lawyer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison, with 10 years suspended, after being found guilty Thursday of embezzling $1.2 million from the guardianship account of…
After a threat by a disability rights group that it would bring suit if officials didn’t take action, immediate renovation is planned of the aging, malfunctioning elevators in Mississippi’s Hinds…
A Mississippi prison for mentally ill inmates is so infested with rats that some prisoners put them on makeshift leashes and sell them as pets, according to a lawsuit filed…
Updated: The Mississippi Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for Willie Jerome Manning, who was scheduled to die by lethal injection this evening for the murders of two…
All charges were dropped Tuesday in a federal case over suspected ricin-laced letters reportedly sent to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator from Mississippi and a state-court judge.
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