Parents of teen found dead on island don't believe he chose to stay behind
Christine and Elmore Wonsley said they don't believe their son would've stayed on the island when his friends left by boat.
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Christine and Elmore Wonsley said they don't believe their son would've stayed on the island when his friends left by boat.
The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will include locations at three sites in Mississippi and Illinois, CBS News has learned.
A string of deadly storms swept across the Southeast, causing catastrophic damage.
The former quarterback has been accused of trying to steer welfare funds to the volleyball program at his alma mater.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortions.
CBS Sports' Rick Neuheisel breaks down LSU vs. #12 Mississippi and other key college football matchups.
"S.O.S" spelled out with rocks saved a woman missing in a national park for days, according to a release from the National Park Service.
Investigators in southwest Mississippi say they may have found human remains in the search for a Maryland college student who disappeared in May 1995.
Kaylee Foster deserves a game ball to go with her homecoming crown.
The night a 19-year-old Mississippi woman was burned to death, she and her killer had sex in her car and he thought he had suffocated her before he torched her vehicle with her inside, a prosecutor said Tuesday in an opening statement, presenting his theory of what led to the gruesome slaying.
A cleaning crew removing and burning trash at a recently purchased home in Mississippi made a startling discovery — a body wrapped in a blue tarp.
Mississippi will appear in front of the NCAA's Committee on Infractions on Sept. 11 in Covington, Kentucky.
A headless body has been found after the head of a young black man was discovered on the front steps of a Mississippi home.
A man who got into an argument with his estranged wife and her family over his children was arrested Sunday in a house-to-house shooting rampage in rural Mississippi that left eight people dead.
Three young Mississippi men were arrested hours after a 6-year-old boy was found shot dead Thursday in his mother's stolen car and the suspects will be charged with capital murder, authorities said.
Four people were killed and scores of homes were flattened early Saturday when a tornado ripped through the Hattiesburg area.
itnesses say dozens of black and white students are occupying the University of Mississippi's main administrative building in Oxford.
Some Mississippi inmates were picking peas in a garden when they got a call to clean up money scattered along a roadside.
Hundreds of people filled a cathedral in Mississippi's capital city on Monday to remember two nuns who spent decades helping the needy and were found stabbed to death last week in their home in one of the poorest counties of the state.
A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home has been arrested and charged with capital murder in the shocking killing that rocked the small town communities where the women served, authorities said.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has issued a government travel ban to North Carolina and Mississippi over the states' controversial public restroom laws.
Guide to five of the most important cities to visit in the South for music lovers
A former Jackson, Mississippi, minister will not have to register as a sex offender in Mississippi after his criminal record was expunged in Maryland.
A six-year-old who police say was kidnapped from a Pascagoula, Mississippi, restaurant Wednesday night has been found safe in Butler County, Alabama. The child's father is behind bars, awaiting extradition.
October is the best month for college football, and it is getting started on the right foot this weekend. The first weekend in October will serve up six games between top 25 teams, which will be a nice breath of fresh air after the last few weeks.
