According to CBS News, two beluga whales settled into their new home, a 2-million-gallon saltwater pool, in Texas on Tuesday following an international relocation mission from a shuttered Canadian theme park...
School is already back in session in some parts of the viewing area, including Columbus, Lowndes County, and Starkville, and that means the return of school-day traffic...
According to CBS News, another deadline to fund the government is looming this fall in Congress, with members fresh off a series of shutdown fights that have left them eager to avoid another costly impasse ahead of the midterm elections...
Associated Press reports that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said late Tuesday that the city would not be able to execute an arrest warrant issued by the world’s top war-crimes court for Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, but urged the federal government to do so...
Sources from Associated Press say an independent autopsy commissioned by the family of Nolan Xavier Wells found the 18-year-old’s cause and manner of death to be “undetermined” pending further investigation...
According to AP, President Donald Trump says Trump Accounts could hoist children out of poverty and give more Americans the chance to benefit from investments in the stock market. But some parents say they’re still waiting for the money to arrive...
AP reports that Winter Storm Uri, the multiday freeze that slammed Texas in February 2021 and pummeled the state’s power grid, has been on Kenneth Kovar’s mind ever since...
Sources from AP say that on one side: a small community in rural Texas. On the other: the Trump administration...
According to Associated Press, the man who was convicted of trying to kill Salman Rushdie is going on trial again, this time in a federal terrorism case that is probing deeper into what allegedly motivated the stabbing on a lecture stage in 2022...
Associated Press reports that President Donald Trump is attending the dignified transfer Wednesday of four U.S. service members killed in the Middle East...
Sources from Associated Press say that the Trump administration is expected to sign an agreement with Saudi Arabia as early as Wednesday that could potentially provide the kingdom with uranium enrichment capability for its civilian nuclear program. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says any deal signed by the U.S. would not lead to proliferation...
According to Associated Press, before Shania Twain became Shania Twain, she was a child performing in Canadian bars, singing to miners, lumberjacks, fishermen and hunters drinking the night away...
An 11-year-old actress from Columbus is in the Big Apple this week for a nationally recognized performing arts intensive...
The City announced the passing of Warren Edward Lavender the Second today on Facebook...
According to CBS, the former U.S. attorney in Seattle who was fired from his post soon after federal judges in the area installed him in the role has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing that his removal was unlawful...
According to an MSU press release, Mississippi State University’s School of Architecture joins two capital city universities in a new collaborative initiative aimed at boosting small businesses and driving economic growth in downtown Jackson...
According to an MSU Press Release, Jay McCurdy is the new head of Mississippi State’s Department of Agricultural Science and Plant Protection...
CBS News reports that the man who was attacked by a bison at Yellowstone National Park earlier this month is opening up about the terrifying moment he was thrown 8 feet into the air by the animal...
Sources from CBS News say that the Trump administration is pausing more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota as part of its crackdown on fraud in federal programs, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday...
According to CBS, three in four Americans don't have enough wealth to weather financial setbacks and achieve major life milestones, according to a recent report from The Aspen Institute, a nonprofit think tank...
Sheriff Eddie Hawkins said 46-year-old Christopher Box got into a fight with his son inside the family home on Thursday, July 16, and things escalated...
Quick work and inter-agency cooperation helped keep an equipment fire from becoming a wildfire in Calhoun County...
CBS News reports that 30% of Americans say they've shoplifted this year, up from 24% in 2024, with many citing financial strain tied to inflation, according to new research from financial site LendingTree...
Sources from CBS News, the Senate Intelligence Committee advanced Jay Clayton's nomination for director of national intelligence on Tuesday, despite opposition from Democrats following his confirmation hearing earlier this month...
According to CBS News, GLP-1 drugs could lead to cost savings for workers and their employers by reducing employee sick leave, a new economic study finds...