Mississippi

Since 1996, tornadoes in the United States have killed 815 people in mobile or manufactured homes, representing 53% of all the people killed at home during a tornado

Emmett Till’s lynching in 1955 and his mother’s insistence on an open casket helped galvanize the civil rights movement

The National Weather Service has issued flash flood warnings and watches for the area where Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri meet at the convergence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers

Authorities said 31 cows died in the northern Alabama town of Berlin during Saturday’s severe weather when lightning struck the tree they were hiding under

State emergency workers were still working with counties to assess the damage from storms in which high temperatures and hail in some areas accompanied tornadoes

About 475,000 customers were without electricity in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma as of Friday morning, as another series of fierce storms made its way through Southern states

While campaigning, Brandon Presley talks frequently about government corruption, focusing on a multimillion-dollar welfare scandal that developed when Tate Reeves was lieutenant governor

Now at least 20 states, including Ohio, Mississippi and Pennsylvania just this year, have legalized the test strips in a bid to combat rising deaths from the ever-present opioid crisis

Officials in the state capital of Jackson announced Wednesday that a grand jury had indicted two former police officers on murder charges and another ex-officer on a manslaughter charge in the death of Keith Murriel

Missouri and Nebraska proposals are poised for action as well, and could add to the list of at least 17 states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender affirming care for minors

Six high school students were injured after gunfire erupted at a house party in southern Mississippi, according to a news report.

Republican Gov. Tate Reeves says violent crime in Jackson has made it necessary to expand where the Capitol Police can patrol and to authorize some appointed rather than elected judges

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The National Weather Service warns that 350,000 are in danger from a ‘confirmed large and destructive tornado’

At least 11 states have now enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors, and nearly two dozen states are considering bills this year to restrict or ban care

Last week’s twister destroyed 300 homes and businesses in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, and nearby Silver City, leaving mounds of lumber, bricks and twisted metal

The National Weather Service said 16.8 million people live in the highest risk zone, and more than 66 million people overall should be on alert Friday

Supercells are going to become more frequent, according to a new study. These are nature’s nastiest storms, producing most damaging hail and killer tornadoes, like the ones that devastated Rolling Fork, Mississippi

Two of the counties hit by the Friday storm are Sharkey and Humphreys, where many people live paycheck to paycheck working jobs in agriculture

Rescuers raced Saturday to search for survivors and help hundreds of people left homeless after a powerful tornado cut a devastating path through Mississippi, flattening entire blocks as it carved a path of destruction for more than an hour

Idaho lawmakers passed a bill this week seeking to add the state to the list of those authorizing firing squads, which currently includes Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina

Firing squads will be used only if the state cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections

For a West that has struggled with long-term drought, forecasters say all the moisture isn’t enough to make a noticeable dent in the nation’s largest reservoirs on the Colorado River

State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh declared she would ‘burn the session to the ground’ in an effort to stymie the bill

The shift is occurring in some states that have severely limited or outlawed abortion access since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion

The homeless and those without electricity were at special risk from the cold, the weather service said

So far this year, at least 150 bills targeting transgender people have been introduced across the US, which is the highest in a single year, according to the Human Rights Campaign