Authorities say a man who stole a plane and flew it over Mississippi after threatening to crash it into a Walmart store faces charges of grand larceny and terroristic threats

Federal prosecutors say a couple who own a $1.3 million home in Mississippi will pay $130,000 to resolve allegations that they falsely claimed low income to get Medicaid health coverage for dependents

A subsidiary of insurance giant State Farm has agreed to pay the federal government $100 million in restitution over its alleged mishandling of flood insurance claims after Hurricane Katrina

The Honors Curriculum Program at Alcorn State University is being renamed in honor of Myrlie Evers-Williams

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi says it's suing three employees of the University of Mississippi Medical Center for allegedly spreading false information

A judge has ruled that Mississippi’s second-largest school district had “vague, overbroad and unconstitutional” restrictions on educators’ freedom of speech

Mississippi is the latest Republican-led state to ban election offices from accepting donations from private groups for voting operations

Seven members of the recently suspended Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at the University of Mississippi have been arrested

A Mississippi weekly newspaper publisher and editor who won awards for his no-nonsense editorial writing has died