Hong Kong’s flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways has cancelled at least four flights to the United States on Sunday ahead of the arrival of a monster winter storm, with more passengers expected to be affected on Monday. Cathay stopped short of revealing the exact number of flights affected, saying only that it was “making a…
Clay Crystal was sitting on his front porch in Jackson, Mississippi, as a child in 1967 when he heard the thunderous sound of an explosion echo through his neighborhood. “I had no idea what it was,” said Crystal, who was 13 at the time. He’d later learn from his father, then president of the Beth…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump. The justices took up an appeal from Mississippi after a panel of three judges nominated by the Republican president on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of…
The last monkey on the loose among several that escaped after a truck carrying them overturned on a Mississippi roadway has been found and captured, authorities said Thursday. A resident who lives near the crash site called authorities to report the animal’s location, and it was then “successfully recovered,” the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries,…
Yazoo City, Miss. — An explosion at a hydrogen and nitrogen product manufacturer in Mississippi on Wednesday caused an ammonia leak and forced nearby residents to evacuate, officials said. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said on social media that emergency officials from across the state were responding to the anhydrous ammonia leak at CF Industries’ plant…
A second monkey has been shot and killed and authorities said Tuesday that they were still searching for a third missing monkey a week after their escape from a truck that overturned on a Mississippi highway. Someone shot the monkey after seeing it cross the highway on Monday evening, about a mile from the scene…
One of the monkeys that escaped last week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi roadway was shot and killed early Sunday by a woman who says she feared for the safety of her children. Jessica Bond Ferguson said she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old son who said he thought he had seen…
Monkeys that were being transported Tuesday on a Mississippi highway escaped after the truck carrying them overturned, and all but one have since been killed, authorities said. The Jasper County Sheriff’s Department said the rhesus monkeys were from Tulane University, writing in a post on Facebook that “they are aggressive to humans and they require…
A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student in 1993 was executed Wednesday. Charles Crawford, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. following a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. Crawford had spent more than 30 years on death row. His execution comes several months after…
Four people have been arrested in connection with a weekend shooting that left six dead and more than a dozen injured in a small Mississippi town, the FBI announced Monday. Teviyon L. Powell, 29; William Bryant, 29, and Morgan Lattimore, 25, have been charged with capital murder, while Latoya A. Powell, 44, has been charged with…