The Latest Breaking News from Mississippi

In a surprising turnaround, Mississippi, once ranked near the bottom of U.S. education standings, has dramatically improved its student literacy rates.

With a hot tamale trail and the world catfish festival, Mississippi has a culinary scene unlike any other in the States – Yvette Cook travels the Delta region to try some of the greatest soul food dishes and hear the stories that inspired them

A series of tornadoes tore across the center of the country, leaving dozens dead and a wide path of destruction.

Several people killed in Kansas dust storm while scattered tornadoes cause fatalities in Missouri

The threat of tornadoes is moving east into the Mississippi Valley and Deep South a day after a massive storm system moving across the country unleashed winds that damaged buildings, whipped up dust storms that caused deadly crashes and fanned more than 100 wildfires in several central states

Peavey CEO Courtland Gray looks back at the firm’s decades of boundary-pushing products, and what sets the company apart from Fender and Marshall

Authorities on Tuesday identified the two health care workers and a pilot who all died in the crash of a medical helicopter in a wooded area of Mississippi

Officials say a medical transport helicopter has crashed in Mississippi

Fires broke out in southern Appalachia this week as a storm from California took casualties in Mississippi and Nebraska