Mississippi

A Mississippi mother has filed a $2 million federal lawsuit against police and city leaders, alleging her 10-year-old son was unjustly arrested for public urination.

Jerri Lynn Isreal, a 66-year-old Mississippi mother, has been arrested and charged with the first-degree murder of her son, John Allen Gaither. The arrest follows a welfare concern call in December regarding a possible missing person

An alarming situation has unfolded in Jackson, Mississippi, where 215 bodies were discovered buried in unmarked graves behind a state jail.

In a disturbing incident in Forest, Mississippi, Sammy Patrick has been apprehended by the Scott County Sheriff's office for the alleged brutal murder, rape, and arson of a 73-year-old woman, Dee Eady.

Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi, according to the official.

A shocking video captured at a Mississippi home shows the moment when a bolt of lightning hit a tree and split it in half.

The shooting happened in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, during a Cinco de Mayo party.

A 19-year-old man has been charged with killing two teens and wounding four others in a shooting at a house party on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The Mississippi welfare fraud case has also named NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre.

Last week's tornado destroyed roughly 300 homes and businesses in Rolling Fork and the nearby town of Silver City. The death toll in Mississippi stood at 21. One person died in Alabama, as well.

A quick-thinking woman saved herself and eight others by rushing everyone into a dairy cooler as an EF-4 tornado tore the building down around her.

The storms killed more than two dozen people and left hundreds of people homeless.

The father shielded his two children, one of which was one-week-old, as the tornado hit their Winona, Mississippi, home. The father says that this home has been within their family for four decades.

Mississippi is one of the poorest states in the U.S., and the majority-Black Delta where the massive tornado struck has long been one of the poorest parts of the state.

“They said you need to take cover, but it happened so fast a lot of people didn’t even get a chance to take cover."

Authorities in Mississippi believe the couple got into an argument that turned physical.

Dozens more are injured and at least four people are missing, Mississippi officials said.

A Mississippi sheriff says a lone gunman man killed six people including his ex-wife and stepfather at multiple locations in a small, rural town near the Tennessee state line.