Do people still take traditional summer vacations? Sure, they do. But these days, even the kids are over-scheduled. So for many folks, weekend getaways are more likely — or at least more likely to be ...

A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World War II ended in Europe. Their brief escape captured headlines across the ...

JACKSON, MS ‒ Twenty people, including 14 current and former law enforcement officers, have each pleaded not guilty to federal charges related to their involvement in a drug trafficking scheme in the ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

“Fancy” was also one of Gentry’s most political songs, describing it in the mid-1970s as her “strongest statement for women’s lib, if you really listen to it. I agree wholeheartedly with that movement ...

In the heart of the Mississippi farmland, where cotton plantations once drove the slave economy, the recent news of a Black student found hanged from a tree on the campus of Delta State University ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal authorities on Thursday announced indictments against 20 people, including 14 current or former Mississippi Delta law enforcement officers, that allege the officers took ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal authorities on Thursday announced indictments against 20 people, including 14 current or former Mississippi Delta law enforcement officers, that allege the officers took ...