Mississippi

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August 16, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A lawsuit against Kathryn Stockett, author of the best-selling novel "The Help," has been rejected by…
August 15, 2011
theGRIO Q&A - Tate Taylor, the producer and director of 'The Help' says that he doesn't care that critics feel…
August 8, 2011
OPINION - James Craig Anderson's family has comported themselves with monumental dignity in the face of the brutal and shocking…
August 8, 2011
RANKIN COUNTY, MS - Dorian Cyrus and Jeffery Taylor Jenkins were friends and went to school together, sources told WBLT...
August 3, 2011
JACKSON, Miss (AP) - Seale died Tuesday in Terre Haute, Ind., where he had been serving three life sentences after…
August 1, 2011
MONEY, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is providing $152,000 to restore a gas station as…
July 28, 2011
BRANDON, Mississippi (AP) - Vincent McGee had been charged with capital murder after Richard Barrett's body was found beaten, stabbed…
July 18, 2011
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) -- Police in Mississippi say a woman opened fire on a puppy that had threatened children, but…
July 13, 2011
OPINION - Surely the irony of threatening to leave three real-life children motherless by putting a young woman behind bars…
July 12, 2011
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Authorities are reviewing the case of a black man found hanging dead from a tree after…
July 7, 2011
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - The hate crime allegations resonated in Mississippi, which long had a history for racial violence against…
July 5, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials say colon cancer deaths continue to drop across America -- except in the state of…
July 1, 2011
MONTICELLO, Miss. - After 10 years of incarceration, and seven years after a jury sentenced him to die, 30-year-old Cory…
June 3, 2011
VIDEO - The infant 's father says the death was the result of a "miscommunication".
May 19, 2011
VIDEO - Rolling Fork, Miss., the hometown of legendary blues musician Muddy Waters, could be sitting underwater...
May 16, 2011
BUTTE LAROSE, Louisiana (AP) - Cajun-country towns in the path of Mississippi River floodwaters were all but deserted Monday...
May 12, 2011
RENA LARA, Miss. (AP) - Officials in a small town are trying to assure its 500 residents they are doing…
May 10, 2011
SLIDESHOW - Floods have devastated areas in Mississippi and Tennessee. Homes, businesses and crops have all been damaged...
May 3, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A public school district in Mississippi and the federal government are divided over whether the schools…
April 26, 2011
OPINION - Even if Barbour did not tote a storage locker of personal and political baggage, his candidacy would still…