Jimmy Buffett Talks About His Return To The Gulf Coast
America's poet laureate of shiftlessness sounds downright determined when he talks about bringing his come-as-you-are kingdom to the benighted shores ...
America's poet laureate of shiftlessness sounds downright determined when he talks about bringing his come-as-you-are kingdom to the benighted shores ...
Hayley Rose Horzepa | Posted 05.21.2012
After being raped by two men when I was just fifteen years old, I understand the value of choice. Maybe that's because I never had one. The trauma I e...
AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.22.2012
By HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. -- As many as 300 inmates, some of them armed with makeshift weapons such as broomsticks, rioted ...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.18.2012
Mississippi state Rep. Andy Gipson (R) weighed in on President Barack Obama's gay marriage decision last week, invoking a bible passage that calls for...
The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 05.17.2012
A man was taken into custody today for allegedly pulling over two drivers and posing as a cop -- but police haven't yet drawn a connection between him...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 05.17.2012
The person who shot two people to death along Mississippi highways possibly while dressed as a police officer is likely a meticulous and organized kil...
AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.16.2012
GREENWOOD, Miss. — A well-known Mississippi oncologist accused of orchestrating a plot to kill his ex-wife's divorce lawyer said he wanted a pic...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.15.2012
Republican Mississippi state Rep. Bubba Carpenter recently gave a callous assessment of a state anti-abortion law that critics have cautioned could cl...
AP | ADRIAN SAINZ and HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.14.2012
HERNANDO, Miss. — Two shooting victims along Mississippi highways may have been killed by someone who posed as law enforcement and pulled them o...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.14.2012
CORRECTION: This story embarrassingly took Bev Perdue's spoof Twitter account at face value -- here is her real one -- to produce the following: No...
AP | EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | Posted 05.11.2012
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said Friday it was "petty" for North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue to insult Mississippi while bemo...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.11.2012
North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D) said Friday that she was embarrassed by voters' passage of an anti-gay marriage amendment to the state's constituti...
Michael Bialas | Posted 05.02.2012
Even though she's lived and worked in Memphis since 1999, singer-songwriter-actress Amy LaVere isn't tied down to one place or, for that matter, one career.
El Chanclaso | Posted 04.28.2012
Un gran aplauso to President Obama for announcing that Dolores Huerta, the legendary civil rights and labor leader, will be receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom along with 12 other outstanding individuals.
Matthew Lynch, Ed.D. | Posted 04.24.2012
Substantial educational change will never occur in Mississippi until its citizens decide that enough is enough and make a commitment to change, no matter what it takes.
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.22.2012
WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the federal government's challenge to the Grand Canyon state's contro...
Anisa Noormohamed | Posted 04.11.2012
The issues surrounding the debate on abortion and reproductive rights seem to be the same across the globe, whether in Muslim countries or in America.
Reuters | Posted 04.10.2012
ATLANTA, April 10 (Reuters) - Mississippi has the highest teen birthrate in the nation while New Hampshire has the lowest, the Centers for Disease C...
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 04.05.2012
By Robbie Ward STARKVILLE, Miss., April 4 (Reuters) - The Mississippi state Senate passed a bill on Wednesday to impose new regulation...
Rocky Kistner | Posted 05.29.2012
As the second anniversary of the worst offshore oil spill in history approaches, the signs are not good that things will return to normal anytime soon.
Posted 03.28.2012
Few places other can claim as much in the way of the musical style as the Mississippi Delta; however, as much as the Delta is known as "the birthplace...
The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.28.2012
Nolan Ryan Henderson's mother says her son was beaten by more than a dozen Jackson State University football players before he was shot in the face ov...
AP | Posted 05.24.2012
STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Sunday expressed his sorrow at the shooting deaths of two college students in the state over...
HuffingtonPost.com | Adam Goldberg | Posted 04.12.2012
The Huffington Post caught up on Thursday with former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour outside of New York's famed Loews Regency Hotel. In addition to d...
HuffingtonPost.com | Adam Goldberg | Posted 04.12.2012
NEW YORK -- GOP power broker Haley Barbour told The Huffington Post on Thursday that the party has yet to coalesce around Mitt Romney, and that Saturd...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 05.22.2012