JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — New data from the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety shows the observed belt usage rate is at 74.4 percent. That’s compared to 83 percent in 2012, officials said Tuesday in a […]
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A woman who was 15 when she disappeared from her California home a decade ago has contacted police and told them she was kidnapped by a man who sexually assaulted […]
TAMPA, Florida (AP) — In the 2008 movie “Iron Man,” the main character becomes a superhero after building a suit of armor with an exoskeleton that gives him incredible strength. Today, elite U.S. special operations […]
BAY ST. LOUIS, Mississippi (AP) — Machinists union members at Mississippi’s Stennis Space Center have voted to accept a contract proposal from Lockheed Martin Corp., settling a five-day strike. Union spokesman Frank Larkin said members […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cpl. Kyle Carpenter remembers lying on his back on a rooftop in Marjah, Afghanistan, crammed up against sandbags alongside his friend and fellow Marine, Lance Cpl. Nicholas Eufrazio. It was Nov. 21, […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The murder conviction of a former employee of the federal Transportation Security Administration in Mississippi has been upheld by the state Court of Appeals. Ruben Orlando Benitez had appealed his murder […]
OXFORD, Mississippi (AP) — One of the ex-prisoners who received a pardon from then-Gov. Haley Barbour has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after he killed another man in an exchange of gunfire. Calhoun County District Attorney […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A Mississippi man who pleaded guilty to sending letters dusted with the poison ricin to President Barack Obama and other officials was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison. James Everett […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A divided Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that Exxon Mobil Corp. can’t be held liable for the presence of alligators at a waste site it owns in Wilkinson County. The oil […]
The Associated Press Here are some news and notes from around Mississippi: In Leakesville, The Mississippi Department of Corrections is hiring officers for the prison. Interviews and screenings will be conducted Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. […]
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