Mississippi

In the letter from Southaven Middle School sent Tuesday, parents received information about helping girls develop a healthy body image. The school’s solution? Shapewear, in part.

Sites associated with Black history in five Southern states will each receive grants of $50,000 from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a liberal advocacy group based in Alabama.

Amazon’s CamperForce program for nomadic workers doubled this year. Here’s what it’s really like to live in an RV and work at Amazon during the holidays.

Authorities have uncovered the remains of a Mississippi woman following a tip from an inmate who revealed the location of her body prior to his execution last month

The Supreme Court’s decision on Texas’ restrictive abortion law has implications when the court makes a decision on another restrictive abortion law in Mississippi.

“If you have access to money to take a plane or take a train or go somewhere where abortion is safe and legal, you’ll do that,” says Kim Wehle, professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She says if the Supreme Court guts Roe v. Wade, “you just might not have any option but to carry a child...

With the U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments about Mississippi’s abortion law and another in Texas, “there is pretty much no question that abortion rights will be cut back. The question is to what extent,” says University of Miami professor Caroline Mala Corbin.

Anti-abortion petitioners in the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health argue that Roe v. Wade should be overturned.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority justices are signaling they will allow states to ban abortion much earlier in pregnancy

A Lyft driver who was kidnapped by a teen rider, shot seven times and left in the Mississippi woods said she gathered strength to drag herself to safety by thinking of her loved ones

The state’s attorney general could sue Favre if he doesn’t pay interest owed on the amount.

A Mississippi case that could change the legal precedents surrounding abortion is being closely watched by activists and experts alike – we break down what’s at stake when the court picks up the case in December.

A Mississippi sheriff’s department says it has identified the remains of a woman found nearly 44 years ago

The Ohio man who angrily confronted NBC News’ Shaquille Brewster on live television was arrested in Dayton on Thursday, authorities said. Benjamin Eugene Dagley, 54, was picked up at a shopping plaza in the southwest Ohio city, U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott said in a statement. Dagley is wanted in Gulfport, Mississippi, where he’ll be charged with two counts of assault, one...

Mississippi police issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for an Ohio man who they say confronted NBC News’ Shaquille Brewster on live television. The man, Benjamin Eugene Dagley, of Wooster, Ohio, will be charged with two counts of simple assault, one count of disturbing the peace and one count of violating an emergency curfew, Gulfport police said in a statement. He could also be in violation of...

New Orleans, much of the rest of southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi are cleaning up after Hurricane Ida roared ashore on Sunday killing at least four people and knocking out power to the area. Two of the deaths occurred in Mississippi Monday night when a highway collapsed in the heavy rains.

Louisiana communities battered by Hurricane Ida are now dealing with the possibility of weeks without power in the stifling, late-summer heat.

Rescuers in boats, helicopters and high-water trucks brought people trapped by Hurricane Ida’s floodwaters to safety Monday and utility repair crews rushed in, after the furious storm swamped the Louisiana coast and ravaged the electrical grid in the stifling, late-summer heat.

Federal officials say hundreds of emergency responders are in place in Louisiana and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has power restoration experts and generators at the ready as Hurricane Ida bashes the region.