Mississippi is set to execute a man convicted of raping and killing a college student
A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student is set to be executed Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman
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Storm decimates 2 Alaskan villages and drives more than 1,500 people from their homes
Officials in Alaska are rushing to find housing for people from tiny coastal villages devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong
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Supreme Court takes up GOP-led challenge to Voting Rights Act that could affect control of Congress
The Supreme Court is taking up a major Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, the centerpiece legislation of the civil rights movement, that could gut a key provision of the law that prohibits racial discrimination in redistricting
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