Suspect in 2 Mississippi killings dies of apparent suicide
By JEFF AMY and ROGELIO SOLIS After an intense manhunt, authorities in Mississippi said a college instructor wanted in the deaths of a woman he lived with and a university…
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BP to pay record $18.7 billion to states affected by spill
By KEVIN McGILL, REBECCA SANTANA and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN More than five years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history fouled beaches, coated seabirds in thick goo and threatened…
‘Blues can never die’: B.B. King reigned but music lives on
By KEN RITTER B.B. King believed anyone could play the blues, and that “as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.” But no one could play the…
Miss. GOP senator seeking union and black support
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS FILE – This May 14, 2014, file photo shows Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., arriving for a vote at the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington.…
50 years ago, ‘Freedom Summer’ changed South, US
By ALLEN G. BREED and SHARON COHEN In this April 4, 2014 photo, Aviva Futorian and Roy DeBerry sit in Futorian’s Chicago apartment. They have been friends since they met…
Emboldened after Cantor, tea party crows
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and PHILIP ELLIOTT Dave Brat smiles after defeating Republican Congressman Eric Cantor in the Republican primary for the 7th Congressional District in Virginia on Tuesday, June…
TO CLEAN UP COAL, OBAMA PUSHES MORE OIL PRODUCTION
By DINA CAPPIELLO In this Oct. 21, 2013, photo, construction continues at the Mississippi Power’s Kemper County energy facility in central Mississippi near DeKalb, Miss. The power plant is designed…
FED JUDGE: TEXAS ABORTION LIMITS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
By CHRIS TOMLINSON File – In this July 9, 2013 file photo, opponents and supporters of an abortion bill hold signs near a news conference outside the Texas Capitol, in…