Bennie Thompson

Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, chair of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, leads a June 9 hearing at the U.S. Capitol...

  INDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) _ B.B. King's early life personified the blues: He was born to dirt-poor sharecroppers in the cotton country of the Mississippi...

PORT GIBSON, Miss. (AP) — The body of a Black man found hanging in a tree in Mississippi has been sent from a state...

Mississippi mayoral candidate, Marco McMillian (l) and suspect Lawrence Reed(r). (Courtesy Photo) by Holbrook Mohr JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An autopsy report says a man admitted to killing a Mississippi mayoral candidate in February and that the victim died from lack of oxygen, but it doesn't give an exact reason for the death beyond calling it a homicide.