During the current Mississippi legislative session, which runs from Jan. 7 through April 6, lawmakers will consider a raft of bills that could become law and impact prisons and jails, courts, policing ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

A new map has been released by scientists that shows the US regions that are most vulnerable to climate change disasters.

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BATON ROUGE, La. — A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest ...

Garrett Monti, a longtime St. Charles Parish resident, opened SHERP of Louisiana in Luling about six months ago ... He said officials in Hillsborough County, Fla. used SHERP vehicles to rescue ...

with the French explorer Jacques Marquette reaching Iowa in 1673 and proving the first European maps of the Upper Mississippi River. Clayton County’s Marquette is named after him. By the early ...

Girls flag football is on the verge of becoming a high school sport in Mississippi, and athletics director James Lewis said the Vicksburg Warren School District’s two public high schools could field ...

Mississippi, Gonzales and Shreveport Louisiana, and Harrisburg, Illinois. The flights could shift with little warning to other parts of the survey area due to adverse flying conditions. This online ...

As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of flood survivors to unique higher ground. New homes in Blue Sky, a subdivision built on ...