Mississippi

WASHINGTON (AP) — A resurgent Rick Santorum swept primaries in Alabama and Mississippi Tuesday night, upending the race for the Republican presidential nomination yet again and nudging Newt Gingrich toward the sidelines.
Mitt Romney finished third in both states, but he salvaged a win in the Ha…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Deep South primaries today could answer questions for all three Republican presidential candidates.
Polls are open in Alabama and Mississippi as Mitt Romney tries to make a southern breakthrough. At the same time, Newt Gingrich is seen as needing wins to stay in the race…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says investigators have found a convicted killer pardoned by former Gov. Haley Barbour.
Hood made the announcement Monday at news conference in his office.
There was no warrant for Joseph Ozment's arrest, but he was served with a court order …

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A white Mississippi teenager has been indicted for capital murder and a hate crime on charges he intentionally ran over a middle-age black man with a pickup truck.