NHRA star Brittany Force hospitalized after crash

NASCAR driver Kurt Busch, left, jokes with NHRA drag racer Brittany Force, right, after beating her in a best of three drag race competition at Charlotte Motor Speedway’s ZMax Dragway in Concord, N.C., during a news conference Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. Chuck Burton / AP POMONA, Calif. — Brittany Force escaped serious injury in a wall-banging crash Sunday in the…

Almanac: Crash test dummies

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: February 11th, 2005, 13 years ago today … the day physicist and engineer Samuel Alderson died at the age of 90. Auto safety advocates honor Alderson to this day for developing the very first Anthropomorphic Test Device — popularly known as “the crash dummy.” He did it back in 1968. Endowed…

This week on “Sunday Morning” (Feb. 11)

Full episodes of “Sunday Morning” are now available to watch on demand on CBSNews.com, CBS.com and CBS All Access, including via Apple TV, Android TV, Roku, Chromecast, Amazon FireTV/FireTV stick and Xbox. The show also streams on CBSN beginning at 9:30 a.m. ET and 1 p.m. ET.  You can also download the free “Sunday Morning” audio podcast at iTunes and at Play.it. Now…

Video: Hot Shooting Night Propels Ole Miss Past Alabama

OXFORD, Miss. (WCBI/AP) — Deandre Burnett scored 24 points, Terence Davis and Markel Crawford both scored 15 and Mississippi beat Alabama 78-66 on Tuesday night. (Video Courtesy: Ole Miss & ESPN/SEC Network) Ole Miss (11-9, 4-4 Southeastern Conference) remained undefeated at home during conference play. Alabama (13-7, 5-3) had its four-game winning streak snapped. Ole Miss led the entire second…

ROBBY IN JAX: Mississippi State Staying Focused on Louisville, Toured USS Farragut

(WATCH ABOVE: Robby’s 6pm report from Jacksonville)  PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (WCBI/MSU Athletics) – Mostly sunny skies greeted Mississippi State football Wednesday as the Bulldogs returned to the practice field in preparation for a Dec. 30 matchup against Louisville in the 2017 TaxSlayer Bowl. MSU worked out for less than two hours on the campus of the University of North Florida,…

2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season

Officially hurricane season runs from June 1st through November 30th and we’ve officially reached the end. However, tropical storms can form at anytime during the year. Just last year we had Hurricane Alex that formed in mid-January and a few years ago we had Tropical Storm Olga that formed in late December. Our first storm this year was Tropical Storm…

Hurricane Irma – A Post Event Analysis

        Irma was a hurricane that caused a lot of destruction across the southeast US and the islands of the Caribbean. As meteorologists we saw Irma coming well in advance of when it made landfall. In fact, Irma became a tropical storm nearly a week and a half before it made a US landfall. With so much…

Video: Mississippi State Discusses QB’s, Replacing Dak & Jeffery Simmons on Media Day

(Photo Courtesy: Kelly Price, MSU Athletics) (6:00pm Report: 4-QB battle) (5:00pm Report: Jeffery Simmons arrives) STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI/MSU Athletics) – Mississippi State football held its annual media day on the eve of the squad’s first practice on Monday afternoon at the Leo Seal Jr. Football Complex. Eighth-year head coach Dan Mullen, new defensive coordinator Peter Sirmon, co-offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach Billy…