Families paying off rent, food, debts with child tax credit
NASHUA, N.H. — Christina Darling finally replaced her 2006 Chevrolet Equinox after it broke down several times while picking her children up from day...
GOP governors lend support to Mississippi anti-abortion law
Led by South Carolina's Henry McMaster, a dozen Republican governors are wading into a lawsuit over Mississippi's new anti-abortion law, the outcome of which...
Louisiana millionaire pleads guilty in wife’s kidnapping
LAFAYETTE, La. — A millionaire businessman in Louisiana has pleaded guilty to having his estranged wife abducted in a scheme that ended when the...
Report: Ex-officer set to take plea deal in woman’s killing
OXFORD, Miss. — A white former police officer in Mississippi will accept a life sentence in the 2019 shooting death of a Black woman...
‘We have to get it right,’ Dem vows as Jan. 6 probe begins
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Bennie Thompson, didn’t realize the severity of the Jan. 6 insurrection until his wife...
Mississippi to file arguments in landmark abortion case
JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi attorney general’s office is expected to file briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to outline the state’s...
NIL era brings cautious optimism to college-town businesses
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Bret Oliverio says he wants college athletes to endorse his Sup Dogs restaurant along the main Franklin Street drag steps...
Officer dies in crash a day after graduating police academy
WAVELAND, Miss. — A weekend car crash killed a Mississippi police officer just a day after she graduated from the police academy, the police...
Gloria Richardson, civil rights pioneer, dies at 99
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Gloria Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was...
$3 million in grants going to Black history sites, groups
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A fund formed in response to the deadly racial violence four years ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, said Thursday it will award...