The 16-year-old was shot and critically injured, but he is recovering.

A 16-year-old boy remains hospitalized in critical condition.

A 2-year-old boy has died, and his mother is hospitalized after a tree had fallen through the roof of their home during Wednesday’s storm.

The Mississippi House Democratic leader says a Medicaid expansion plan endorsed by Republican leaders could struggle for bipartisan support.

BET won’t be sold after all: Paramount Global decided against selling the majority stake of the network.

Cincinnati begins this week at the top of the national sacks chart after recording 11 against Tulsa.

Hank Williams Jr. is unleashing his alter ego Thunderhead Hawkins on a new record of raunchy blues songs.

Bill Luckett was an attorney, small-town mayor, candidate for Mississippi governor, storyteller, blues promoter and business partner and friend of Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman.

DETROIT – The family of Charlatta Roper is asking for the public’s help in her death. Police said her body was found in the back seat of a car, found in an alley near Wilshire and Hayes. Robert Johnson, Roper’s uncle, is asking some tough questions Thursday night, and he said he knows someone has the answer. Police found her body in the back seat of a car Wednesday morning in an alley near Wilshire and Hayes in Detroit. “We would never, ever thought that you would leave us like this in this way -- that no one would take you from us like this,” said Lisa Johnson, Roper’s aunt.