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The Ohio man who angrily confronted NBC News’ Shaquille Brewster on live television was arrested in Dayton on Thursday, authorities said. Benjamin Eugene Dagley, 54, was picked up at a shopping plaza in the southwest Ohio city, U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott said in a statement. Dagley is wanted in Gulfport, Mississippi, where he’ll be charged with two counts of assault, one...

Mississippi police issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for an Ohio man who they say confronted NBC News’ Shaquille Brewster on live television. The man, Benjamin Eugene Dagley, of Wooster, Ohio, will be charged with two counts of simple assault, one count of disturbing the peace and one count of violating an emergency curfew, Gulfport police said in a statement. He could also be in violation of...

New Orleans, much of the rest of southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi are cleaning up after Hurricane Ida roared ashore on Sunday killing at least four people and knocking out power to the area. Two of the deaths occurred in Mississippi Monday night when a highway collapsed in the heavy rains.

Louisiana communities battered by Hurricane Ida are now dealing with the possibility of weeks without power in the stifling, late-summer heat.

Rescuers in boats, helicopters and high-water trucks brought people trapped by Hurricane Ida’s floodwaters to safety Monday and utility repair crews rushed in, after the furious storm swamped the Louisiana coast and ravaged the electrical grid in the stifling, late-summer heat.

Federal officials say hundreds of emergency responders are in place in Louisiana and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has power restoration experts and generators at the ready as Hurricane Ida bashes the region.

Ida made landfall Sunday as a Category 4 storm, bringing with it strong winds, infrastructure damage and flooding.

Mississippi seeks doctors and nurses and has asked federal officials for ventilators as the state hit a record of more than 5,000 new Covid cases in one day.

Rising numbers of Covid cases and hospitalizations in Mississippi will inevitably lead to more deaths, according to the state’s health officer.

Unvaccinated people are eager to travel again. But increasingly, the rules make that harder.

For more than a century, one of Mississippi’s largest and most elaborate Confederate monuments has looked out over the lawn at the courthouse in the center of Greenwood.

Two of the states hit hardest last week, Mississippi and Louisiana and, have some of the nation’s worst vaccination rates and climbing Covid hospitalizations.

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died

As inflation increases prices on everything from groceries to energy, these are the ten U.S. states where a dollar goes the furthest.

These ten states may be perfectly fine places to live, but they come up short if that life includes working from home.

No state offers lower costs than the Magnolia State, but innovation and business friendliness are in short supply.

Case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to the public for the first time

A man has been arrested for arson in a December fire that killed the sister-in-law of a former Mississippi lawmaker

Authorities in Alabama say a suspected tornado spurred by Tropical Storm Claudette demolished or badly damaged at least 50 homes in a small town just north of the Florida border