WASHINGTON - Rick Santorum seized an important opportunity Tuesday to become the chief conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, as he made a clean sweep of three Republican presidential nomination contests in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota.
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.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. A newly formed Alabama company is buying the 57 stores owned by Birmingham-based Southern Family Markets.
JACKSON, Miss. Lt. Col. Mike D. Holmes has been named head of the uniform division of the Mississippi Highway Patrol.
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.
BEIRUT The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposition to calm violence. Activists reported at least 50 killed in military assaults targeting government opponents.
LONDON Florence Green never saw the front line. Her war was spent serving food, not dodging bullets.
DALLAS Local and federal authorities offered to help secure Dallas-area bus and train stations Wednesday after a shootout left two people dead, the latest in a string of violent incidents on Dallas mass transit, an agency spokesman said.
NEW YORK The agency that is building the new World Trade Center is "dysfunctional" and has let costs get out of control on the $14.8 billion project, auditors said Tuesday.
BISMARCK, N.D. Is it the return of the Fighting Sioux? Supporters of the University of North Dakota's nickname turned in more than 17,000 signatures Tuesday night to cap a petition drive to force a statewide vote on a moniker the NCAA says is insulting to American Indians.
OLYMPIA, Wash. Police released 911 calls that revealed a social worker's frantic attempts to alert authorities that Josh Powell had locked himself in his home with his two young sons, moments before he set off a huge fire that killed all inside.
U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo announced this afternoon the Navy has decided to move the commissioning of the $2 billion USS Mississippi submarine to Pascagoula.
Stocks staged an afternoon-long rally and closed higher Wednesday as Greece appeared to close in on the cost-cutting deal it needs to keep from defaulting on its national debt.
OCEAN SPRINGS -- The city has a new alderman at-large -- Bobby Cox, the son of a former alderman.
OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Baltimore Ravens running back Ricky Williams says he’s retiring from football.
BILOXI The Band Perry and Montgomery Gentry are among the headlining acts announced this afternoon for the 20th annual Crawfish Music Festival.
BILOXI - The Biloxi City Council took no action this morning on the proposed ordinance to ban smoking in most of the city’s public places.
OCEAN SPRINGS A citizen has removed Carl the downtown rooster from downtown.
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.
NEW YORK Stocks resumed their slow but steady climb Tuesday as Greece appeared close to announcing a deal with creditors to cut its debt. The Dow Jones industrial average ended at its highest level since May 2008.
