HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The first three months of 2016 were more active than usual in terms of severe weather in Mississippi. Ed Tarver, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson, tells The Hattiesburg American the cause is…
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - Ocean Springs officials are looking at bringing Uber to their city. Even a member of the city's Economic Development Council says he can't get a taxi in under 30 minutes. The Sun Herald reports the…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man has been arrested after authorities say he tried to rob a Knoxville police officer who was sitting in an unmarked police car. Citing a police report, the Knoxville News-Sentinel says the officer was sitting…
SNEEDVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities have identified a person of interest in the wake of the deaths of a couple whose bodies were found in a northeastern Tennessee home. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation tells news outlets that Hancock County…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps could get up to 23 years in prison when a judge sentences him Monday. U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate is scheduled to decide how long Epps will be locked…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee State Library and Archives is planning to collect digital records of how World War I affected Tennesseans. The library says archivists will travel throughout the state to digitally scan and photograph documents, maps, photographs,…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - An Internal Revenue Service investigator and federal prosecutor are warning the public against fraud that occurs around income tax time. U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn Jr. of the Western District of Kentucky and IRS Criminal Investigation…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Nashville Metro Public Health Department is offering its 12th annual Backyard Inspection Day to help residents find out how to reduce the mosquito population. Volunteers and Health Department staff will go door to door weather…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis police are looking for a suspect after four people were shot at a gas station. Media outlets report the shooting occurred Saturday night. Police say the victims were involved in an altercation with a man…
LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Highway Patrol says two Elmwood residents have been killed and five other people were injured in a single-car accident on Interstate 40. The Tennessean reports the accident occurred Saturday night in Lebanon. The Highway…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Louisville police say three people have died in a car accident along Interstate 64. Media outlets report a woman and two youths were in a car that collided with a minivan on the westbound side and…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Authorities say a weekend shooting left one man dead near the University of Kentucky campus. The Fayette County coroner's office identified the victim as 28-year-old James N. Gordon. The office says in a statement that Gordon…
FLAT GAP, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky State Police say an eastern Kentucky teenager has died after falling into the backwaters of Paintsville Lake. Police identified the victim as 15-year-old Luke Caudill of Staffordsville and said he was in the lake…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Robin Roberts says "everyone" should be treated equally after Mississippi lawmakers passed a law saying religious groups and some private businesses can cite moral beliefs to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people. In…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Latest on the trial for a former Vanderbilt University football player who is accused of sexually assaulting a former student in a dorm room. A jury has found a former Vanderbilt University football player guilty…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A 63-year-old Long Beach woman accused of cutting a pacemaker out of her dead boyfriend's chest and then stuffing his body in a trash can has died. Media outlets report Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove says…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A group of University of Louisville students left a panel discussion on opioid abuse armed with heroin overdose kits and the knowledge of how to use them. The Courier-Journal reports the event was held this week…
PICAYUNE, Miss. (AP) - Authorities have arrested a 39-year-old Picayune man for allegedly producing child pornography and sexually abusing a 7-year-old. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said in a news release David Owens was arrested Wednesday on charges of production…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Health officials are reporting the first case of Zika virus in Shelby County. The Shelby County Health Department said Thursday that the person with the virus traveled to one of the countries where Zika is prevalent.…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A woman accused of hiring two people to kill a romantic rival has been added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports Brenda Delgado is wanted for capital murder in the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam has named Wendy Long as the state's new TennCare director. Long was TennCare's chief medical officer from 2004 to 2012. She replaces Darin Gordon, who is leaving after 10 years as head of…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Memphis woman has been accused of embezzling more than $130,000 from the Christian adoption agency she worked for. Citing a police report, news outlets report that 51-year-old Rhonda Eastham was recently arrested and charged with…
GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities in Tennessee say an officer fatally shot a woman who attacked with a medieval-style ax. News outlets report 40-year-old Laronda Sweatt of Gallatin became combative when Sumner County sheriff's deputy Gary Pickard accompanied housing authorities…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Officials in Tennessee say a sewage leak that led to a major fish kill and high levels of E.coli bacteria in a creek and a lake has been stopped. Ursula Madden, a city of Memphis spokeswoman,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - House Speaker Beth Harwell is taking steps to move the offices and limit the access of state Rep. Jeremy Durham, who is under investigation for sexual harassment. Attorney General Herbert Slatery wrote in a memorandum to…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Police have arrested a man suspected of robbing a couple as they attempted to buy a truck through a Craigslist ad. Local news outlets report that authorities arrested 19-year-old Kyran White on charges of attempted first-degree…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Memphis man has been convicted in federal court of sex trafficking involving a teenage girl. Twenty-seven-year-old Harold Davis of Memphis was found guilty this week in federal court in Memphis to sex trafficking a minor…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The University of Louisville Faculty Senate has voted to anonymously poll its members to see whether they have confidence in Dr. James Ramsey's ability to lead the school. News outlets report that a majority of the…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The FBI and Pascagoula Police have announced they will be reopening three separate cold cases. The agencies say in a statement that from 1975 to 1979, three Pascagoula-area women were killed. Janie Sanders in 1975, Debra…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - The Bay St. Louis city prosecutor has agreed to conditionally dismiss a case against a businessman and former county supervisor candidate, who was charged with disorderly conduct during a heated City Council meeting in…
KILN, Miss. (AP) - Hancock County sheriff's deputies say they have arrested a 22-year-old Kiln man accused of sending nude selfies to a teenage girl. The Sun Herald reports Timothy Louis Moore II faces a charge of using a computer…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The April 14 trial of one of nine charged in the shooting deaths of Hattiesburg police officers Benjamin J. Deen and Liquori Tate has been continued. No new trial date has been set. Cornelius Clark, charged…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - A judge has set bond at $1 million for a man accused in the death of his girlfriend's toddler. The Sun Herald reports Justice Court Judge Desmond Hoda set the bond for 25-year-old Charles…
GOLDTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - A tour spokesman for Gregg Allman's band says three crew members have been injured when a bus went off Interstate 77 in West Virginia. Spokesman Ken Weinstein says the crew members were treated for minor injuries…
LOGANSPORT, Ind. (AP) - The boyfriend of a north central Indiana woman killed in a New Year's Day fire is facing murder and arson charges in the case. The charges were filed Monday in Cass Superior Court in Logansport against…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's attorney general has called fantasy sports contests illegal gambling. Attorney General Herbert Slatery wrote a formal opinion that said fantasy sports betting violates state laws against gambling because participants pay an entry fee to win…
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) - Retired quarterback Peyton Manning will serve as honorary race official for the Food City 500 on April 17. Bristol Motor Speedway officials announced Manning's involvement Wednesday. As an honorary race official, Manning will accompany Dale Earnhardt…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Environmental officials are advising the public not to come in contact with water in a lake near the Mississippi River in West Tennessee where a broken sewer line has resulted in "an extremely high level of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee House panel has revived a bill seeking to require students to use restrooms that match their gender at birth. The House Education Administration and Planning Committee voted 8-4 on Wednesday to reverse an earlier…
GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) - The Leflore County Board of Supervisors plans to hire a private collection agency to recover unpaid court fines and outstanding garbage collection fees. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports the board Monday authorized its attorney, Joyce Chiles, to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country giant Merle Haggard, who celebrated outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such hits as "Okie From Muskogee" and "Sing Me Back Home," died Wednesday at 79, on his birthday. Haggard's manager,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A bill that would allow counselors to turn away patients based on sincerely held personal beliefs has passed in the House in Tennessee and is close to getting to the governor. The Senate, which already passed…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A 19-year-old man is facing felony assault charges after police say he attacked and pistol whipped three Tennessee State University students inside a dorm room. Metro Nashville Police say Griffin Deshun Cole was arrested early Tuesday…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky House and Senate leaders are scheduled to resume budget talks at the state Capitol. Republican Senate president Robert Stivers is in Frankfort on Wednesday. According to Stivers spokesman John Cox, Stivers plans to meet with…
MANCHESTER, Ky. (AP) - An official with a defunct company has admitted to helping steal $1.32 million from a construction company through false claims about construction of a recycling factory in Manchester. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports David R. Bennett pleaded…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The Hattiesburg Public School District will lay off 53 employees in the latest in a series of cost-cutting measures. The Hattiesburg American reports that the school district's interim superintendent, Greg Ladner, sent layoff notices to the…
PELAATCHIE, Miss. (AP) - One of two escaped Florida inmates has been captured in Mississippi. Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey tells WAPT TV 28-year-old James Thomas Banks was arrested early Wednesday morning. Details about the arrest were not immediately available.…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Court of Appeals denied motions for re-hearings in two separate Lee County cases. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports 30-year-old Travon Brown, of Tupelo, was sentenced to two life sentences in late 2013 for…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The FBI has announced an increase in the reward money offered for those involved in a Memphis credit union robbery that involved a kidnapping. Agents are looking for two men who kidnapped an employee who worked…
BEATTYVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Authorities say the bodies of three people have been found after a fatal house fire in eastern Kentucky. Kentucky State Police said in a news release that crews responded early Tuesday to fight the fire, which…
