Mississippi

Emmett Till was 14 years old in August 1955, when he was kidnapped, tortured and killed by two white men in Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman. Till's death…

JACKSON, Miss —  The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in…

ROLLING FORK, Mississippi —  President Joe Biden saw for himself the flattened homes, broken furniture and upended lives left behind by last week's deadly tornado in Mississippi…

U.S. President Joe Biden issued a disaster declaration early Sunday for four Mississippi counties following the powerful tornadoes that swept through them Friday that leveled…

ROLLING FORK, Mississippi —  Rescuers raced Saturday to search for survivors and help hundreds of people left homeless after a powerful tornado cut a devastating path through…

ARKABUTLA, Mississippi —  A lone gunman killed six people including his ex-wife and stepfather Friday at multiple locations in a tiny rural community in northern Mississippi, a…

JACKSON, Mississippi —  City officials in Jackson, Mississippi, on Christmas Day announced that residents must now boil their drinking water due to water lines bursting in the…

Washington —  Jackson, the capital city of the southern U.S. state of Mississippi, has been left without safe water to drink and for other uses after its long-neglected water…

Jackson, Mississippi —  A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago,…

Student Olivia Raymond participates in a personal finance course in her middle school class in West Orange, New Jersey, in February 2020.CNBCPursuing financial literacy is…