Heavy rain will drench a good part of the weekend in South Mississippi, with 2 to 4 inches of rain expected to fall and isolated areas getting 6 inches or more, said Rupert Lacy, emergency management director for Harrison County.
JACKSON COUNTY -- Jackson County deputies are searching for 17-year-old Franky "C.J." George Jr., missing since May 16 when he was picked up at East Central High School by a cousin and later dropped off in George County, according to the Jackson County Sheriff's Department.
STARKVILLE--Friday afternoon's lid lifter to the Starkville Regional was supposed to be a showcase of two of the nation's top pitchers: Southeast Missouri's Joey Lucchesi and Mississippi State's Dakota Hudson.
A sex offender who officials said got into a shootout with deputies Thursday has now been booked on seven counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson said Friday.
A diverse group of gay, straight and transgender people have filed the third federal court challenge seeking to block a Mississippi law that lets clerks cite religious beliefs to recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
A report from Best College Values ranked William Carey University as No. 5 on a national list of the most affordable online master's degrees in elementary education.
BILOXI - Former New York Mets catcher Barry Lyons spoke about life in baseball and his redemption Friday before a standing room only crowd Friday at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art.
The last four soldiers still missing after a truck carrying a dozen troops was washed from a flooded low-water cross at Fort Hood were found dead Friday, bringing the death toll from the accident to nine.
