Birmingham’s Derby Middle School cast of “The Wizard of Oz” stopped by “Live in the D” to share their excitement about their upcoming performance.

A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board.

Kevin Yu is a PGA Tour winner for the first time.

A growing number of states are allowing candidates for local and state office to use their campaign dollars to pay for child care expenses.

Federal, state and local governments are all trying to reduce maternal mortality rates across the United States and eliminate racial disparities.

A Michigan Department of Corrections officer is facing felony charges after reportedly smuggling drugs into a Jackson County jail.

An Oakland County man’s “jaw hit the floor and stayed there” when he scratched off his Jackson instant ticket and won $2 million.

Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre says a Mississippi judge improperly blocked his lead attorney from representing him in a state civil lawsuit that seeks to recover misspent welfare money.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee that sought to block Mississippi from counting absentee ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days after after it.

Vice President Kamala Harris has crashed the season finale of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars,” urging Americans to vote in an appearance taped before President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid.

A flood watch has been issued for more than a dozen Michigan counties ahead of expected storms.

Mississippi election officials say redrawing legislative districts in time for this November’s election is impossible because of tight deadlines to prepare ballots.

Basketball star Lauren Jackson will compete at her fifth Olympics after being selected in Australia’s 12-player squad just three months after again coming out of retirement.

Police are crediting the community’s help with locating a suspect in a Jackson County coffee shop burglary.

A landslide has wiped out a vital two-lane road in western Wyoming.

A large chunk of a mountain pass highway in Wyoming has collapsed, severing a well-traveled commuter link between small towns in eastern Idaho and the tourist destination of Jackson.

A tech industry group says a new Mississippi law requiring users of websites and other digital services to verify their age will unconstitutionally limit access to online speech for minors and adults.

Government advisers say it’s time to update the recipe for the COVID-19 vaccines Americans will receive in the fall.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a new law regulating transgender people’s use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories in public education buildings.

Just when it appeared baseball’s young standouts had mastered the transition from Triple-A to the majors, a few of the game’s prized prospects showed up and went through a humbling experience.

Stopping to get a car wash led a Jackson woman to becoming a millionaire when she won a $1 million Mega Millions prize from the Michigan Lottery.

A tornado watch was issued for Tuesday afternoon and evening in 19 Michigan counties.

Janet Jackson will make her fourth appearance at the 2024 Essence Festival of Culture this summer in New Orleans.

A Mississippi judge granted a request Thursday by the widow of a deceased man who vanished under mysterious circumstances to set standards for a future independent autopsy of her late husband’s body.

Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some felonies.

A 31-year-old man accused of shooting at police has been arrested in Jackson after a manhunt across Mid-Michigan.

A Jackson man got a message he had never seen before when scanning his Powerball ticket, which led to him find out he was the winner of a $150,000 Powerball prize!

The suspect has been identified as Marcus Gamba Oglesby, a 31-year-old man from Jackson.

The largest fresh egg producer in the U.S. says it has stopped production at a plant in the Texas Panhandle after bird flu was found in the flock.

Dollar Tree will close nearly 1,000 stores and swung to a surprise fourth quarter loss as the discount retailer took a related $1.07 billion goodwill impairment charge.

The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill for the second year in a row that would transfer control of the state capital city’s troubled water system to a regional board.

The Mississippi State Health Department says Jackson's water is safe to consume.

A bomb threat emailed to officials in several states has briefly disrupted government affairs and prompted some state capitol evacuations, but no explosives have been found and federal officials quickly dismissed the threats as a hoax.

A federal judge will allow Mississippi officials to move forward with creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson.

A mother of eight received a heart transplant at the University of Michigan Health on her 48th birthday after years of living with a failing heart.

A federal judge will consider arguments over racial discrimination, public safety and local democracy as he decides whether to block appointments to a state-run court set to be created on Jan. 1 in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city.

Constitutional rights are at the center of a legal fight over a state-run court in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city of Jackson.

A third family says they recently discovered a relative was buried in a Mississippi pauper’s cemetery without their knowledge.

The manager of the long-troubled water system in Missisisppi’s capital city has proposed a slight rate increase.

Mississippi's long history of voter suppression has created widespread voter fatigue among Black residents in a state where they account for nearly 40% of the population.

Election officials in Mississippi’s most populous county had to scramble to complete required poll worker training after an early September breach involving county computers.

Tuesday is Election Day in Mississippi.

A civil rights attorney says he will ask the U.S. Justice Department to investigate why authorities in Jackson, Mississippi, waited months to tell a woman that her son had been struck and killed by a police SUV driven by an off-duty officer.

Hundreds of thousands of students nationwide face challenges learning math due to disabilities such as dyscalculia.

The deposition in the civil lawsuit against retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre in connection with Mississippi’s welfare scandal has been pushed back at the request of the athlete’s attorneys.

Ben Griffin is leading the Sanderson Farms Championship after a 63 at the Country Club of Jackson.

Mississippi's human services director says the state has seen a consistent increase in the number of families accepting public assistance for child care since lawmakers banned abortion in almost all circumstances.

It’s rare when fans and coaches at a high school football game demand to take pictures with the officiating crew after the game.

Longtime Mississippi civil rights activist Hollis Watkins has died.

A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that found Mississippi relies too much on institutionalizing people with mental health conditions rather than providing care in their communities.

After a few spotty showers in the morning, skies will turn mostly cloudy by afternoon. Highs reach the mid-70s.

A majority-Black Mississippi school district has received a judge’s approval to shed federal supervision in a desegregation lawsuit that dates back to 1965.

Michigan Medicine’s Community Health Services department is hosting several free flu vaccine and COVID-19 booster clinics.

The Big 12 Conference sprung from the old Big Eight, a bunch of entirely public and largely agricultural schools.

In a story published August 25, 2023, about Mississippi runoff elections, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Tuesday's runoff primary is limited only to voters who cast ballots in the Aug. 8 primary election.

As brutal heat stretches across much of the United States, some farmers may be watching their crops grow parched.

The Washtenaw County Health Department released new data on firearms that shows gun death rates in the county have increased.

Consumers Energy wants to explore the possible sale of its 13 hydroelectric dams as the Michigan utility evaluates their future and cost efficiency.

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The Biden administration is asking employers to give workers who lose Medicaid coverage more time to land health insurance through their jobs.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Mississippi woman who says she was hit by a stray police bullet while lying in bed.

The U.S. Supreme Court says it will not stop Mississippi from removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies — a practice that originated in the Jim Crow era with the intent of stopping Black men from influencing elections.

Civil rights icon James Meredith fell outside the Mississippi Capitol at an event marking his 90th birthday.

The Henry Ford breast milk donor bank in Jackson has received accreditation and is accepting applications from human milk donors.

It's been 60 years since civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered outside his Mississippi home.

A new lawsuit says a Mississippi law will restrict free speech by requiring people to obtain permission from state law enforcement officials for any protest near state government buildings in the capital city of Jackson.

U.S. births were flat last year, as the nation continues to see fewer babies born than it did before the pandemic.

Robots are on display at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in London, where visitors can get a glimpse of the future.

Nearly a year after deadly flooding hit eastern Kentucky, a housing crisis is affecting the impoverished region.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's a “Survivor superfan” and in a commencement address in Washington offered graduating law school students lessons from the reality TV show.

An Associated Press analysis has found that many of this year’s statehouse proposals to restrict gender-affirming care for youths are identical or very similar to some model legislation.

Three residents of Mississippi’s capital city say their rights are undermined by a new state law that would create a court inside Jackson with judges who are appointed.

Police confirmed they have returned to the Michigan home where, 38 years ago, a mother heard a car door slam in the middle of the night and realized her 6-year-old daughter was gone.

It’s been 38 years since a 6-year-old Michigan girl disappeared, and her mother’s only clue is a sound that briefly woke her up in the middle of the night.

Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has released his text email messages related to a welfare fraud investigation, including money spent for a university volleyball arena.

A police official says man who escaped from a Mississippi jail and is a suspect in a Monday night killing is believed to have died after barricading himself in a home and setting it on fire during an armed standoff with deputies.

The Atlanta Hawks are still alive in the playoffs and that will force fans planning to attend Janet Jackson’s concert in the city this week to wait a day to see the music star.

Last September, Emily and Matt Buchanan of Clarkston, Michigan, began noticing something strange was happening to their son Jackson.

Mississippi is violating its own constitution with a law that requires some judges to be appointed rather than elected in the state’s majority-Black capital city and its surrounding county.

The NAACP warns that “separate and unequal policing” will return to Mississippi’s majority-Black capital under a state-run police department.

A federal judge says Mississippi must join most other states in allowing religious exemptions from vaccinations that are required so children can attend school.

A Jackson man thought he was going to faint when he won $1 million on the Michigan Lottery’s The Big Spin show.

The majority-white and Republican-led Mississippi Legislature is taking final steps to expand the territory of a state-run police department inside Jackson.

In a story published March 29, 2023, about the Mississippi Senate voting not to confirm a new state superintendent of education, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the previous superintendent, Carey Wright, had served 13 years.

State officials will hold a virtual town hall Tuesday afternoon, where residents can voice their concerns about power outages following several widespread outage events that have occurred in recent months and years.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill that will restrict electric car manufacturers from selling vehicles in person unless they open franchised dealerships.

The viral video, taken along 8 Mile Road, showed the lengths one man went to in an effort to save a complete stranger.

On Thursday, the Henry Ford Health System in Jackson showed off its new facility and took a significant step towards opening its doors to the community.

The mother of a 25-year-old Black man who was shot to death by Mississippi Capitol Police last year is telling state lawmakers that she strongly opposes giving the state-run police department wider territory to patrol inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson.

The expected move next week in Congress to overturn District of Columbia laws dealing with criminal justice and voting has created a political tempest in the nation’s capital, with local activists decrying it as the latest effort to undermine the city’s ability to determine its own future.

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill to ban gender-affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court.

People in Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city say the mostly white state Legislature is trying to encroach on their rights of self-government.

Thirty years after terrorism first struck the World Trade Center, victims’ relatives and survivors are remembering the deadly 1993 bombing that foreshadowed 9/11.

The federal government has allocated $190 billion in pandemic relief to help schools.

Bill Martin has donated $100,000 to an Ann Arbor-based nonprofit to improve the lives of those living near one of Central America's largest garbage dumps.

It has been three weeks since 5-year-old Ethan Belcher was found dead in a Detroit home.

Members of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus are denouncing efforts by the state Legislature to grab power from the capital city of Jackson.

Michigan State Police said they have received a series of fake threats targeting schools across the state, including in Ann Arbor and Detroit.

A former University of Mississippi chancellor says Republican Gov. Tate Reeves spoke privately with him years ago about the benefits of expanding Medicaid to people in low-wage jobs.