JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi has three congressional primaries Tuesday - two Republican and one Democratic. In the northern 1st District, Republican U.S. Rep. Trent Kelly of Tupelo is challenged by Paul Clover of Olive Branch. Kelly won a June…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The Hamilton County Board of Education has voted against buying out Superintendent Rick Smith's contract, leaving the embattled official at the helm. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that five of the board's nine members voted…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - House Speaker Greg Stumbo renewed his push Monday to amend Kentucky's Constitution to give local voters the option of temporarily raising sales taxes to pay for big-ticket construction projects. After seeing the proposal die a year…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi House of Representatives has decided to kill two bills by not taking them up for debate. House Bill 738 would have required Attorney General Jim Hood to get approval from an oversight commission before…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama lawmaker wants convicted sex offenders to pay for their own surgical castration. Steve Hurst, a Republican from Munford, Ala., has introduced a bill that would require sex offenders older than 21 to pay for…
BRANDON, Miss. (AP) - Rankin County authorities say the body of a missing woman has been found in the Ross Barnett Reservoir. Sheriff Bryan Bailey says 78-year-old Hattie L. Moore was reported missing about 8 p.m. Sunday from her daughter's…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities are investigating an altercation between an apparel store customer and a suspected shoplifter that led to a shot being fired in a mall parking lot. Memphis police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph said officers responded to a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A fatal school bus crash in Knoxville has inspired Tennessee lawmakers to seek tougher penalties for drivers using electronic devices. Investigators last year found that one driver had been reading a text message just before his…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has ordered all state flags be flown at half-staff in honor of Nancy Reagan. The former first lady and wife of President Ronald Reagan died Sunday of congestive heart failure. She was…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Four special elections in Kentucky could control the fate of the state House of Representatives and the $650 million state spending cuts proposed by Republican Gov. Matt Bevin. Voters in four Kentucky House districts will elect…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi guard Stefan Moody won the Howell Trophy and Mississippi State guard Victoria Vivians won the Gillom Trophy on Monday at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. The Howell is given to the state's…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two Tennessee residents are suing the nation's largest diesel retailer over holds placed on their credit cards when they swiped at the pump, but an industry representative says the banks are really to blame. The lawsuits…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz were scheduled to appear in Mississippi before its presidential primaries, but the state has received relatively little attention this campaign season. Trump was scheduled to speak Monday evening in the…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi has received relatively little attention from presidential candidates ahead of its primaries, with campaigns focusing time and resources in several other states. Republican front-runner Donald Trump was scheduled to campaign in the Jackson suburb of…
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) - The Daily Independent newspaper and the Paramount Arts Center have partnered to bring the U.S. Army Field Band & Soldiers' Chorus to Ashland next month. The Daily Independent reports the free concert is scheduled for April…
NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) - Developers of the former Eola Hotel building are expected to appear before the Natchez Board of Aldermen on Tuesday. Interim City Planner Riccardo Giani and the Natchez Planning Commission denied renovation plans for the first floor…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says it is investigating what led police to shoot at a suspect while responding to a domestic violence call in Murfreesboro. TBI spokesman Josh DeVine tells media that at least one…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Chattanooga officials are making a push to train more people for jobs that are expected to be coming to the city. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports city government officials launched a job skills training initiative…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A state lawmaker in Ohio is working to establish a day in honor of Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens. Legislation introduced last week by state Sen. Cecil Thomas, a Cincinnati Democrat, would declare Sept. 12 as…
WAVELAND, Miss. (AP) - The city of Waveland will file a petition in Hancock County Chancery Court seeking to annex parts of Clermont Harbor and Lakeshore, including the properties where the Silver Slipper Casino and Bayou Caddy Fishery are located. The…
INEZ, Ky. (AP) - A Martin County man has died after a tree fell on his family's mobile home, trapping four of his family members as well. Rescuers were able to free the four relatives early Saturday, but 56-year-old Larry…
VERSAILLES, Ky. (AP) - A septic-tank installer has been accused of illegally discharging an estimated 1,000 gallons of raw sewage into an Anderson County creek that runs into the Kentucky River. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that a federal grand jury…
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) - The Daily Independent newspaper and the Paramount Arts Center have partnered to bring the U.S. Army Field Band & Soldiers' Chorus to Ashland next month. The Daily Independent reports the free concert is scheduled for April…
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) - Officials are searching for a vehicle that was stolen from a driver who was found shot. Vicksburg Police Chief Walter Armstrong tells media outlets that an officer found 52-year-old John Thomas lying face-down with multiple gunshot…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says 37 counties in Arkansas and 10 in five neighboring states are eligible for disaster aid if they lost crops to rain and flooding between Nov. 1 and Jan. 12. A news release says two…
GOLDEN POND, Ky. (AP) - Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area says wildlife refuges that have been closed since last fall will reopen next week. The areas reopening on March 16 are Rushing Bay, Duncan Bay, Duncan Lake, Smith…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A group of University of Tennessee journalism students is preparing to screen a documentary meant to shed light on the problem of neonatal abstinence syndrome in East Tennessee. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports the students' film,…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Great Smoky Mountain Council of the Boy Scouts of America has named U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander as the Council Alumnus of the Year. The council honored Alexander for applying throughout his career the skills and…
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Arraignment is expected Monday for a man arrested in the shooting death of a Starkville teenager. Twenty-eight-year-old Neal Anthony Anderson of Starkville was arrested at the scene of Friday night's shooting. Starkville police told the Northeast…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Jackson police are investigating two shootings in which three men were killed within five hours. The Clarion-Ledger reports that 22-year-old Eli Nunez Sanchez and 27-year-old Daniel Gomez were shot about 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Officials say Sanchez…
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - Despite hushed whispers, the tapping of nervous feet, the clicking of iPhone cameras, all was silent for West Kentucky Community & Technical College's men's basketball coach Michael Chumbler on Feb. 27 as he stood to meet…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A plane carrying NASCAR team members that was headed from Las Vegas to Charlotte, North Carolina, made an emergency landing in Memphis. The plane landed early Monday morning at Memphis International Airport. The plane belonged to…
PANOLA, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi prosecutor says it could be late this before the 27-year-old man accused of burning a 19-year-old woman to death is returned from Louisiana to face a capital murder charge. Quinton Verdell Tellis has been…
LYNCH, Ky. (AP) - Harlan County officials are looking to preserve two unique attractions in an effort to increase tourism. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports one of those is Portal 31, an exhibition underground coal mine, and the other is Benham's…
SCOTTSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky State Police affidavit says a man charged in the killing of a 7-year-old girl was identified by a West Virginia boy as someone who allegedly tried to lure him into a vehicle a month…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The presidential campaigns did not come to Kentucky much for its first Republican caucus since 1984. But the voters did. While many Republican officials feared a low turnout for the state's first presidential caucus since 1984,…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Entergy Mississippi just can't cut rates fast enough to keep up with falling natural gas prices, and Mississippi Power Co. isn't far behind. The unit of New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. will cut rates by $102 million…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Rather than asking for wine glasses or a new blender, a Nashville couple have asked their wedding guests to donate money to address hunger problems in their city. The Tennessean reports that Jacob Weiss and Joy…
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - An animal rescue group in Mississippi has returned a baby owl to a nest in an Ocean Springs cemetery. A person visiting the cemetery had found the owl on the ground - possibly because of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Pop star Kesha, who says her producer sexually and psychologically abused her, choked up after accepting an award for her stance against harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. The Human Rights Campaign Nashville on…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Jurors could soon decide whether two hotel companies should be held partially responsible for a stalker taking nude videos of sportscaster Erin Andrews and posting them online. The jury is scheduled to begin deliberating in Andrews'…
LONDON, Ky. (AP) - Authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a man by a constable in Laurel County. In a news release, Laurel County Sheriff John Root says Constable Bobby Joe Smith was attempting to serve a warrant on…
WINCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) - The second of four suspects charged in the beating death of a Cowan man has been convicted. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports 29-year-old Todd E. Dalton pleaded guilty Wednesday in Franklin County Circuit Court to…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - New figures show Mississippi's economy grew at a 1.9 percent annual rate from July through September, exactly equal to the national growth rate. Gross domestic product numbers released Thursday by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis…
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi judge who presided over the trial in one of the South's most infamous civil-rights cases is retiring for health reasons. Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon sentenced Edgar Ray Killen to 60 years in prison in…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Scientists say the discovery of two young black carp in a ditch connected to the Mississippi River is a troubling sign for native species in the river. Adult black carp have been caught in the…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - An attorney is making additional arguments in a federal lawsuit that seeks to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the Mississippi flag. In papers filed Thursday, Carlos Moore says the emblem violates the 13th Amendment to…
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - Despite hushed whispers, the tapping of nervous feet, and the clicking of iPhone cameras, all was silent for West Kentucky Community & Technical College's men's basketball coach Michael Chumbler on Feb. 27 as he stood to…
WINCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) - The second of four suspects charged in the beating death of a Cowan man has been convicted. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/1LZXTC3 ) 29-year-old Todd E. Dalton pleaded guilty Wednesday in Franklin County Circuit…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Accompanied by a hip-hop dance, the students in Angel McKay's class at Cherokee Elementary rap their knowledge of the water cycle. "It moves the water, moves it up and down, all around the Earth, the water…
