NASHVILLE, Tenn. These Tennessee lotteries were drawn Wednesday:
ELLISVILLE, Miss. A 19-year-old Jones County Junior College student has been arrested for allegedly writing a note claiming there was a bomb on campus.
TUPELO, Miss. Residents with droopy pants or skirts could face hefty fines and community service after Tupelo officials approved a ban against the popular style.
NEW ORLEANS The New Orleans Hornets have requested waivers on guard Carldell Johnson and forward/guard DaJuan Summers.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. A newly formed Alabama company is buying the 57 stores owned by Birmingham-based Southern Family Markets.
NEW ORLEANS Bones uncovered at a South Louisiana slave cemetery where black Union veterans were buried after the Civil War will likely be reburied nearby to ensure their reinterment doesn't disturb other graves, federal authorities have announced.
ROCK HILL, S.C. Police say former major league outfielder Danny Clyburn Jr. has been shot and killed in his South Carolina hometown.
CORINTH, Miss. Alcorn County Sheriff Charles Rinehart has asked supervisors to support legislation to create a civil service system for his employees.
JACKSON, Miss. The Mississippi Development Authority will lead a delegation of state business leaders on a trade mission to Israel.
JACKSON, Miss. Lt. Col. Mike D. Holmes has been named head of the uniform division of the Mississippi Highway Patrol.
TUPELO, Miss. The towns of Houston and New Houlka have received Community Development Block Grants for $450,000 each that will be used for sewer line improvements in both towns.
WASHINGTON Descendants of Harriet Tubman have gathered at The President's Gallery by Madame Tussauds and unveiled a wax statue of the woman who led hundreds of slaves to freedom.
NATCHEZ, Miss. The Adams County Sheriff's Department has joined a nationwide law enforcement information sharing network
JACKSON, Miss. A state House committee voted Tuesday to push forward a bill that would cut Attorney General Jim Hood's authority, turning down Hood's request to speak to the group before it voted.
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. Ocean Springs Alderman Chic Cody says the city has to address the rooster issue once and for all.
COLLINS, Miss. The owners of the Collins Zoo have asked a judge to return 11 animals seized by state wildlife officers in January.
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. The Mississippi Department of Health's has suspended some services and cut hours at its office in Ocean Springs.
JACKSON, Miss. A Hinds County Circuit Court judge has sentenced a 20-year-old Jackson man who caused a crash that killed a Madison-Ridgeland Academy teacher in 2010.
PASCAGOULA, Miss. A Biloxi man has pleaded guilty to failure to pay child support and received a 3 1/2-year suspended sentence plus orders to immediately pay back $2,020 of the $15,000 owed in the case.
HATTIESBURG, Miss. A July trial date has been set for a man indicted in the 1979 rape and murder of an Eatonville woman.
PASCAGOULA, Miss. A deadbeat dad has pleaded guilty to failure to pay child support and received a 3 1/2-year suspended sentence plus orders to immediately pay back $2,020 of the $15,000 owed in the case.
GULFPORT, Miss. An Ocean Springs man has pleaded not guilty to a federal charge of possession of child pornography.
GULFPORT, Miss. Harrison County supervisors have denied an appeal by a business to open a dirt pit on Mississippi 53.
WIGGINS, Miss. Stone County supervisors are looking to select a project that could be funded from a Community Development Block Grant of up to $600,000.
NEW ORLEANS A federal judge has set aside nearly seven hours for opening statements in a trial over the deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. A preliminary hearing Wednesday for three men charged in the Christmas Day shooting death of a 16-year-old Memphis, Tenn., girl has been canceled.
BATESVILLE, Miss. Authorities believe a feud between rival gangs lead to the shooting death of Jeremy Wright on a Batesville street on Jan. 16.
TUPELO, Miss. Lee County supervisors have agreed a proposed noise ordinance is perhaps too excessive.
LONDON BP PLC has raised its quarterly dividend by 14 percent after posting double-digit gains in profit and revenue in the last three months of 2011 despite further big payments to compensate for the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. These Tennessee lotteries were drawn Tuesday:
