More students expected to spend part of summer in school
With her three teenagers vaccinated against COVID-19, Aja Purnell-Mitchell left it up to them to decide whether to go back to school during summer...
Bus driver for group of Nashville Freedom Riders dies
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jimmy Allen Ruth, the Trailways bus driver for the 1961 group of Nashville Freedom Riders, has died, his family said. He...
Mississippi group honors fictional man in ‘Ode to Billy Joe’
<p>GREENWOOD, Miss. — A group of Mississippi residents gathered on a sleepy, dusty Delta day to remember the fictional Billy Joe McAllister where —...
Mississippi group honors fictional man in ‘Ode to Billy Joe’
GREENWOOD, Miss. — A group of Mississippi residents gathered on a sleepy, dusty Delta day to remember the fictional Billy Joe McAllister where —...
NOAA: Average-sized ‘dead zone’ likely off Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS — An average “dead zone” is likely in the Gulf of Mexico, where a large area of water holding too little oxygen...
NOAA: Average-sized ‘dead zone’ likely off Louisiana
<p>NEW ORLEANS — An average “dead zone” is likely in the Gulf of Mexico, where a large area of water holding too little oxygen...
Selma-to-Montgomery march camps top list of endangered sites
<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The landmark voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 didn't happen in just one day: Participants spent four nights...
Selma-to-Montgomery march camps top list of endangered sites
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The landmark voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 didn't happen in just one day: Participants spent four nights...
‘Elvis’ has left the sign as vandals hit singer’s birthplace
<p>TUPELO, Miss. — Elvis Presley's birthplace in Mississippi is offering a $1,000 reward to figure out who took the word “Elvis" off the landmark's...
‘Elvis’ has left the sign as vandals hit singer’s birthplace
TUPELO, Miss. — Elvis Presley's birthplace in Mississippi is offering a $1,000 reward to figure out who took the word “Elvis" off the landmark's...