Tropical system to bring heavy rain, flooding to Gulf Coast
MIAMI — Forecasters predict a tropical system will bring heavy rain, storm surge and coastal flooding to the northern Gulf Coast as early as...
Father gives daughter life-saving gift as living organ donor
CARRIERE, Miss. — Sitting poolside with his wife and two daughters, Rhett Shaffette says he’s already received the best gift this Father’s Day.
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Making hot sauce and working to save wetlands
AVERY ISLAND, La. — As storms grow more violent and Louisiana loses more of its coast, the family that makes Tabasco Sauce is fighting...
Echoes of Breonna Taylor in shooting of Black man in Georgia
ATLANTA — Johnny Lorenzo Bolton was lying with his eyes closed on a couch in his apartment near Atlanta when police serving a narcotics...
Man pleads guilty in charge linked to 2019 immigration raids
JACKSON, Miss. — A man who worked as an employee services contractor at a Mississippi poultry processing plant pleaded guilty Monday to a federal...
As COVID-19 cases wane, vaccine-lagging areas still see risk
JACKSON, Miss. — New COVID-19 cases are declining across the most of the country, even in some states with vaccine-hesitant populations. But almost all...
US vaccine surplus grows by the day as expiration dates loom
In Tennessee and North Carolina, demand for the COVID-19 vaccine has slowed down so much that they have given millions of doses back to...
Heavy rains soak parts of Appalachia, northern Mississippi
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Storms with soaking rains drenched a wide swath of Appalachia and northern Mississippi this week, swamping farmland, flooding bridges, stranding people...
Martha White dies, sparked ’53 Louisiana capital bus boycott
BATON ROUGE, La. — Martha White, a woman whose actions helped launch the 1953 bus boycotts in Louisiana's capital city, has died. She was...
Interior gauging interest in Gulf of Mexico wind power
NEW ORLEANS — President Joe Biden's administration wants to know whether offshore wind companies want to move into the Gulf of Mexico.
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