As federal investigators converged Saturday morning on a Houston oil refinery where a crane collapse killed four and injured seven others, the company that owns the 30-story-tall crane released the names of the dead workers.
For years, they were the picture of solidarity: the four children of Martin Luther King Jr. carrying on the legacy of the civil rights icon.
Alabama, one of America's poorest states, is home to the nation's second highest paid attorney general.
Gloved and delicate, moving with a deliberation that belied the fact that she was handling a kitchen spatula, archivist Emilie Leumas carefully separated bits of brittle, 1871 newsprint just lifted out of a time capsule buried 137 years ago in the cornerstone of St. Joseph Catholic Church.
Death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop, who was convicted of participating in the claw hammer murder of a friend, is just days away from the execution he asked for eight years ago.
Gov. Haley Barbour has commuted a convicted killer's sentence after 19 years in prison, drawing outrage from the victim's family.
VICKSBURG - Riverwalk Casino and Hotel officials say the resort may open earlier than expected, becoming Vicksburg's fifth casino as early as October.
Fausto, Bertha still at sea . Tropical Storm Cristobal churned off the Southeast seaboard after it formed Saturday, the first storm to threaten the U.S. this hurricane season, forecasters said.
Attorneys for death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop claim in court papers that he did not kill Marcus James Gentry and should not be executed Wednesday.
Minister Slew, a grandson of 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew, has been euthanized after fracturing a leg during a sudden thunderstorm.
Chris Cheramie isn't a Katrina victim, but he was surprised to learn he is the first person to occupy a home of a kind specifically designed to shelter Louisiana residents displaced by the storm.
The federal government has released a new safety video that focuses on a 2006 explosion that left three dead at an oilfield near Raleigh.
Gov. Bobby Jindal said Friday that Louisiana would find the money to pay its costly share of levee work to meet a 2011 construction deadline, but urged federal officials to give Louisiana a break and allow payments over 30 years rather than three.
A man who attempted to rob a woman in a Rawls Springs home ended up shooting himself in the leg and was facing an amputation, according to the Forrest County Sheriff's Department.
Laurel police were still searching for a bank robber Wednesday evening who made off with an undisclosed amount of cash from Central Sunbelt Federal Credit Union. No injuries were reported during the robbery, which was called in at 8:50 a.m. at the Sawmill Road branch in Laurel.
JACKSON - The state Auditor's Office has recovered $66,104 for Tishomingo County from former Sheriff David Smith and former Chief Deputy Sheriff Rodney Pannell.
A Houston, Miss., man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 2007 sexual assault of a Mississippi State University student.
Death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop asked a federal appeals court Thursday to block his upcoming execution and consider the legality of Mississippi's method of lethal injection.
Dry conditions persist across much of Mississippi and Louisiana.
Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee lead the nation when it comes to obesity, a new government survey reported Thursday.
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