Mississippi

A Mississippi mother has filed a $2 million federal lawsuit against police and city leaders, alleging her 10-year-old son was unjustly arrested for public urination.

Brooke Lillie of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, defied medical odds by becoming a mother despite her rare medical history. Diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy as a toddler, she underwent a heart transplant at 15 months and a kidney transplant in 2019.

The newborn was found bundled in several blankets in a car seat Wednesday behind dumpsters, authorities said.

Jerri Lynn Isreal, a 66-year-old Mississippi mother, has been arrested and charged with the first-degree murder of her son, John Allen Gaither. The arrest follows a welfare concern call in December regarding a possible missing person

An alarming situation has unfolded in Jackson, Mississippi, where 215 bodies were discovered buried in unmarked graves behind a state jail.

A truck driver, possibly experiencing a medical emergency, crashed into a national cemetery, damaging 10 headstones of deceased veterans along with other structures.

The Tuohy family alleged in recent court filings that Michael Oher demanded the couple pay him millions in royalties from "The Blind Side" movie.

An alligator the size of an adult male grizzly bear was captured by four Mississippi men — breaking the record for the longest alligator harvested in the state.

Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi, according to the official.

A shocking video captured at a Mississippi home shows the moment when a bolt of lightning hit a tree and split it in half.

An attorney says a Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an 11-year-old Black boy in the child’s home should be fired.

School officials told her to dress like a boy ,and a federal judge did not block the officials’ decision.