U.S. gasoline prices have gone up by nearly a dime a gallon in the past two weeks, reversing a three-month slide amid an increase in crude oil costs, according to a new nationwide survey.
Twenty years ago, singer/songwriter Cassandra Wilson signed a lucrative recording deal with Blue Note Records and subsequently released her seminal recording "Blue Light 'til Dawn." The critically acclaimed work led Time magazine to proclaim her "America's Best Singer."
The average price of gasoline has dropped 16 cents a gallon over the past few weeks, and could fall a bit further in the coming weeks, the publisher of a new survey said Sunday.
Two more arrests were made in connection with the shooting death of a Mississippi State University student on campus, bringing the total number of suspects to three, officials said Tuesday.
A 21-year-old Mississippi State University student was found shot to death on campus. Affiliate WAPT reports.
A sharp increase in the price of North Sea oil helped drive U.S. gasoline prices up about 12 cents a gallon since late January, according to a new nationwide survey.
There isn't a question that's more quintessentially American than "What do you do for a living?"
LZ Granderson explains how in U.S. culture a person's worth is tied to his or her profession.
To get to Brandon, you have to drive across the Pearl River, a boundary that seems to separate black Mississippi from white.
The family of an African-American man who was killed when he was beaten and run over with a truck has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a group of teens alleged to have been present at the time of the attack.
Tornado warning sirens echoed across northern Georgia on Monday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee swept through the area, damaging dozens of homes and knocking out power to thousands.
CNN's Susan Hendricks talks to reporter Reagan Hackleman from CNN affiliate KXAN about the devastating Texas wildfires.
The prosecutor investigating the hit-and-run killing of a black man in Jackson, Mississippi, announced he has upgraded the charge against suspect Deryl Dedmon from murder to capital murder. This makes the white 19-year-old suspect eligible for a possible death sentence if convicted.
The security camera footage broadcast by CNN shows a grisly scene: a black man in Jackson, Mississippi, being fatally run over by a pickup truck after he was viciously beaten in a motel parking lot on a Sunday morning in June. Prosecutors say a group of white teens chose the man at random. They say the alleged ringleader, an 18-year-old now charged with murder, laughed about it afterward and boasted in a phone conversation about how he "ran that n----- over."
Gas prices have fallen by nearly a dime over the past few weeks following the decline in crude oil prices, according to a survey published Sunday.
The film's stars were treated to classic dishes following Tuesday night's premiere
On a recent Sunday morning just before dawn, two carloads of white teenagers drove to Jackson, Mississippi, on what the county district attorney says was a mission of hate: to find and hurt a black person.
The average per-gallon gas price in the United States has dropped nearly 17 cents in the past three weeks, and likely will continue to drop further, according to a survey published Sunday.
After nearing the all-time record, gas prices in the United States are sliding downward, with another drop possible in the next few days, according to a survey published Sunday.
The flood-swollen Mississippi River was cresting at Vicksburg Wednesday night, hours earlier than anticipated but at a record level of 57 feet, according to the National Weather Service.
Larry Smith's desire to make sure he's alive to watch his grandchildren grow up was his light bulb moment.
Affiliate WDBD shot this video of a tornado on the ground near Jackson, Mississippi.
Powerful storms and tornadoes barrelled through Mississippi, Alabama and moved into Georgia on Friday, toppling trees, snapping power lines and ripping off roofs.
U.S. gasoline prices rose slightly in the past two weeks as a glut of gasoline offset a small increase in crude oil prices, according to a national survey out Sunday.
John Hofmeister, former president of Shell Oil, predicts we'll be paying $5 a gallon by 2012 because of global demand.
After 16 years behind bars in Mississippi, two sisters were released Friday on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other.
Jamie and Gladys Scott reflect on their imprisonment and say they hold no grudge against those who put them behind bars.
A video mash-up of the singer's hit "OMG" and a Simpsons ditty causes a humorous stir online
Two Mississippi sisters who have spent 16 years in prison over an $11 armed robbery will be released with an unusual stipulation: One must donate a kidney to the other.
Some American children are facing circumstances so dire that they require foreign aid to supplement services such as tutoring and reading programs, said a report by the Children's Defense Fund released Tuesday.
A severe storm system had the Carolinas and Virginia in its sights late Tuesday after it slammed into metropolitan Atlanta, damaging dozens of homes and snarling the afternoon commute.
State authorities dispatched emergency crews Tuesday to survey the damage after an onslaught of severe weather in Mississippi that injured at least 17 people, damaged property and cut power.
Massive cleanup efforts are under way after several tornadoes ripped through the southern U.S.
A Jackson, Mississippi, high school basketball coach is accused of whipping students for "failing to run basketball plays correctly," according to a federal lawsuit filed this week by three students.
A parent and attorney address shocking video where a Mississippi high school basketball coach allegedly whips a player.
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have prepared an arrest warrant for former television host Gary Collins for leaving the scene of an accident, police spokesman Colendula Green told CNN.
U.S. gasoline prices have decreased by less than a cent in the past two weeks, though some regions saw an increase due to an oil pipeline leak, according to a new nationwide survey.
In Jackson, Mississippi, Ceara Sturgis has grown up with her classmates for the past 12 years. Day in day out, she was a well-liked, self-described "tomboy," an academically gifted student.
Some Florida fishermen and boat captains say BP lied about hiring them to help clean oil in the Gulf. WEAR reports.
I see many articles calling Sam Stosur's victory over Justine Henin an upset. How is it an upset when a seventh seed defeats the 22nd seed? --Karl Sponberg, Bellingham, Wash.
It so rarely snows in Mobile, Alabama, that the city's public works department doesn't bother keeping road salt on hand.
Another band of frigid weather will blanket the eastern two-thirds of the nation Wednesday, battering states already dealing with record-low temperatures that have been blamed for at least five deaths.
JACKSON, Miss. -- The small plastic bag hangs behind his desk, tacked to the Astroturf-coated wall and easily missed amid the celebrity photographs, Hole in One scorecards ("I've got six! You play enough golf, you get 'em.") and miscellaneous pieces of scrap paper.
One FAA safety inspector was killed and another injured Tuesday when a helicopter they were on crashed into an apparently unoccupied house in Jackson, Mississippi, authorities said.
Jamie Lynn Spears is "holding up well" after boyfriend's accident, a source tells PEOPLE
It's a nightmarish scenario straight out of the movies: A passenger is forced to land a plane after its pilot becomes incapacitated.
When David Watkins visits Farish Street in Jackson, Miss., he looks past the dilapidated, vine-covered buildings and sees the future.
A 53-cent drop in gas prices over the last two weeks has set another record, and the publisher of a national survey predicted Sunday that prices will continue to decline -- but at a slower pace.
I'd all but given up on resort vacations for my family. I just couldn't take the food. As the editor of Food & Wine magazine, I've grown accustomed to culinary adventures pretty much every day. But resort meals, with their overcooked pasta and tasteless chicken, managed to fall short of even my lowest expectations.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday all but killed a federal plan nearly seven decades in the making to build the world's largest water pump in the Mississippi Delta
SI.com has dispatched 10 writers to report on the 32 NFL training camps across the country. For the complete schedule of postcards, click here.
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was in a hospital in Memphis,
Tenn., on Monday after being injured in a car accident in
Mississippi
Authorities were trying to determine Wednesday whether the remains of a soldier found in the woods of a National Guard training base are of a Kentucky guardsman who went missing before his unit deployed to Iraq
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