Wed May 18, 2011 7:47 PM EDT
Friends and colleagues of retired U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter — who presided over numerous insurance cases that arose from Hurricane Katrina — are remembering him as a jurist who ruled fairly and with integrity.
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Fri May 6, 2011 6:56 PM EDT
A jury has awarded $322 million to a Mississippi man who claimed he inhaled asbestos dust while mixing drilling mud sold and manufactured by Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. and Union Carbide Corp.
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Thu May 5, 2011 5:12 PM EDT
When bluesman Robert Johnson died broke and all but unknown in a tiny Mississippi crossroads town, he was buried in a homemade coffin and an unmarked grave. Yet, a century after he came into this world, his eerie blues still influence artists from Eric Clapton to John Mayer, and his legacy continues to be celebrated.
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Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:45 AM EDT
Muddy Waters was looking for a new piano player when chain-smoking journeyman Pinetop Perkins showed off his aggressive keyboarding during a jam session.
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Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:16 PM EST
Add another title for bluesman Pinetop Perkins: oldest Grammy winner.
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Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:26 PM EST
When Neil Brown got high on dangerous chemicals sold as bath salts, he took his skinning knife and slit his face and stomach repeatedly. Brown survived, but authorities say others haven't been so lucky after snorting, injecting or smoking powders with such innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Wave, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky.
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Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:00 PM EST
When Neil Brown got high on bath salts, he took his skinning knife and slit his face and stomach repeatedly. Brown survived, but authorities say others haven't been so lucky after snorting, injecting or smoking powders with such innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Wave, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky.
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Wed Jan 5, 2011 4:31 PM EST
Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Ford has a theory about why such good literature comes from his native Mississippi, where he's returning to teach graduate writing classes this fall.
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Tue Dec 21, 2010 12:38 PM EST
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson says his new documentary about the courageous activists who defiantly opposed the 1960s segregation of the South may help inspire a new generation of youth.
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Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:11 AM EST
Mississippi bred some of the worst violence of the civil rights era, yet nearly a half-century after a barrage of atrocities pricked the conscience of the nation, it's one of the few civil rights battleground states with no museum to commemorate the era.
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Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:51 AM EST
Two photographs pairing artistic giants of the 20th century— author William Faulkner and photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson — are coming back home to Mississippi.
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Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:14 PM EST
The federal government and Mississippi are setting aside $132 million to help Hurricane Katrina victims still in need five years after the storm.
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Fri Nov 5, 2010 2:03 PM EDT
The lesbian who successfully challenged a rural Mississippi school district's ban on same-sex prom dates says she wept when she read about the recent spate of gay teen suicides linked to harassment.
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Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:19 AM EDT
It took seven years, but the University of Mississippi has a substitute for a beloved and reviled mascot who brought the Confederacy to mind. The new guy is still a rebel, only cuddlier.
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Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:28 PM EDT
A judge on Thursday freed two men who spent three decades in prison before DNA evidence showed they didn't rape a woman and cut her throat in a grisly 1979 attack.
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Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:57 PM EDT
The head of the NAACP urged Mississippi's governor on Tuesday to pardon two black women who are serving life in prison for their role in an $11 armed robbery.
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Thu Sep 9, 2010 11:18 AM EDT
As the Vietnam War raged and rock 'n roll reeled from the breakup of the Beatles, a ragtag group of enthusiasts put out the first edition of what they hoped would become a showcase magazine for the blues music they loved.
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Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:09 PM EDT
Texas-based KiOR, a company with plans to produce a crude oil substitute from wood chips and other biomass, will locate its first three facilities in Mississippi.
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Sat Aug 21, 2010 12:09 PM EDT
Pete Yarborough, a trucker who hauled seafood until the BP oil spill hit, and about 800 other households are under pressure to buy or get out of the state-owned cottages they've been living in since Hurricane Katrina left them homeless.
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Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:41 PM EDT
Another teenage lesbian is suing a rural Mississippi school district, this time over a policy banning young women from wearing tuxedos in senior yearbook portraits.
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Thu Aug 5, 2010 11:42 AM EDT
Rock icon Ike Turner is about to get recognition in his Mississippi hometown nearly three years after his death.
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Fri Jul 23, 2010 2:18 PM EDT
It took First Lady Michelle Obama two swings to smash open the sparkling wine she used to christen a ship in honor of the Coast Guard's first female commissioned officer.
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Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:10 PM EDT
A rural school district that canceled its prom rather than allow a lesbian student to attend with her girlfriend has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit the ACLU filed on her behalf.
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Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:26 AM EDT
A rural school district that canceled its prom rather than allow a lesbian student to attend with her girlfriend has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit the ACLU filed on her behalf.
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Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:54 PM EDT
With 16 tiers of Hindu script inscribed into its concrete ceiling, the ornate, cream-colored temple is an incongruous structure at the end of a winding road near Brandon, a growing bedroom community just outside Mississippi's capital city.
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