Baby 'Cured' Of HIV Actually Still Has It
A toddler thought to have been cured of HIV now has detectable levels of the virus in her blood, the child's doctors and U.S. health officials said on Thursday.The Mississippi child's stunning story,...
View ArticleMeet The 'Mega Troll' Who's Turned A Major US Senate Race Into His Own...
Charles C. Johnson hadn't covered the Mississippi Senate Republican primary until it was already over.Almost a week after incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran officially staved off a primary challenge from...
View ArticleMississippi Tea Party Candidate Claims He Found Enough 'Questionable Votes'...
Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who is in the process of pursuing a legal challenge to his loss in the June 24 U.S. Senate Republican primary runoff, said Friday his campaign has found more...
View ArticleFacebook Messages Reveal Secret Plan To Photograph GOP Senator's Wife In...
New Facebook messages reviewed and reported on by The New York Times on Monday reveal a plan to photograph U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-Mississippi) bed-ridden wife in a nursing home. Those efforts led...
View ArticleMassachusetts Is The Best Place To Raise Children
The children's charity, Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), just released its rankings of the states that have the best overall child well-being, and Massachusetts was the winner.Crunching state-based...
View ArticleThe Nastiest Election Fight In America Still Won't Die
Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel on Monday officially announced a legal challenge to the results of the June 24 Republican Senate primary runoff election, demanding the state's Republican Party...
View ArticleMississippi Republicans Tell Tea Party Senate Loser: No, We Won't Just...
Mississippi's Republican Party said late Wednesday it would not hear state Sen. Chris McDaniel's challenge to the results of his Republican primary runoff loss to incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in...
View ArticleTerrifying Cell Phone Footage Captured From Inside A Mississippi Tornado
This amazing footage inside a tornado was captured by William Bozeman, who shot the video on his iPhone 4 in Columbia, Mississippi, where he works. While running to take cover Bozeman lost his phone,...
View ArticleThe Mississippi Delta Has Been Destroyed By White Flight
"The richest land this side of the valley Nile!”The plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt used those words to describe the Mississippi Delta in Tennessee Williams’ play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.The fertile...
View ArticleA black man was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi
The NAACP has called on the Department of Justice to investigate the death of an African American man found hanging from a tree earlier today, MSNewsNow reported.Claiborne County Sheriff Marvin Lucas...
View ArticleVigilantes are trying to destroy Mississippi's only abortion clinic
In January 2014, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant declared that his goal as governor was to “end abortion in Mississippi.” He has not been able to do that so far, but earlier this week, vigilantes took the...
View ArticleSenior aide to prominent Mississippi senator arrested over alleged...
A staffer to Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi) was charged with possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, The Washington Post reported Friday.The Post reported that Fred Pagan served as...
View ArticleTwo police officers shot and killed in Mississippi
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (Reuters) - One of two suspects is reportedly in custody after a shooting that left two police officers dead in Mississippi.The Hattiesburg Police officers were shot and killed as...
View ArticleThere are 5 states that have Confederate imagery in their flags
South Carolina isn't the only state that has an issue with the Confederate flag. In the aftermath of last week's massacre in a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, much of the...
View ArticleMississippi leaders are now talking about the Confederate logo on their state...
The Confederate flag debate appears to be moving from South Carolina to Mississippi, where the state flag prominently features the Confederate battle flag. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), one...
View ArticleLouisiana's attorney general doesn't plan to allow gay marriage anytime soon
Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell will not immediately enforce the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage, stating Friday that his office "has found nothing in today's decision...
View Article2 states still aren't letting gay couples get married
Same-sex marriage remained on hold in Louisiana and Mississippi, even as a Supreme Court ruling on Friday legalizing it nationwide led to gay couples joyously tying the knot in other states that banned...
View Article4 prisoners escaped from jail in Mississippi and only 2 have been caught
Four inmates escaped from a jail in Mississippi and authorities were searching for two of them on Tuesday after apprehending two others.The four, who faced charges ranging from murder to robbery,...
View ArticleThis map shows the states the most and least dependent on the federal government
Every state receives different levels of funding from the federal government to help support its economy.Wallethub, a personal finance resource website, sought to find out which states rely the least...
View ArticleThese 2 photos show the amazing resilience of one Hurricane Katrina survivor
Hurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster in US history. It caused $81 billion in property damage over a span of 90,000 square miles, an expanse of land larger than the entire state of...
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