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Four people were rescued and one person is missing.

King was 89 when he died May 14 at his home in Las Vegas.

Mississippi does not register voters by party, but state law bans a person from voting in one party's primary and another party's runoff in the same cycle.

In a bizarre turn of events a missing Houma man was found yesterday in the woods of Hancock County, Mississippi. 29-year-old Bryan Ashley Hulse Jr. had been missing for a few days when he was located near a Mississippi power substation, reportedly dancing naked.

Hancock County sheriff's Detective John Luther tells The Sun Herald 45-year-old Mary Asenath Woodin had been assaulted and set on fire.

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Harrison County judge has been asked to sign an order to exhume the body of an unidentified woman some believe to be a Louisiana woman reported missing 20 years ago. The Sun Herald reports that Hancock County Coroner Jim Faulk wants a forensic team to dig up the remains of a Jane Doe buried 15 years ago near Diamondhead...

One 16 ounce drink or two 12 ounce drinks. Which is worse?

Starnes has been busy this week attending book signings and avoiding protests on the streets of New York City.

A Mississippi man is in jail on drug charges following a traffic stop. Deputies in St. Martin Parish say they pulled over Kasey Smith and his passenger Ivory Tims on I-10.

A Louisiana man arrested in Mississippi, allegedly for watching porn at a McDonald's Play Place.

A multitude of state agencies are continuing to work on plans for flooding in Louisiana.  Sandbagging, equipment distribution and more manpower has been enlisted.  Here is the breakdown from the State's Joint Information Center.

Fox News' Jennifer Keiper joined "Mornings Ken and Bernie" to talk about flooding in the Midwest.  Keiper says some areas are bracing for more water.

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says a Louisiana federal judge should correct deficiencies in the claims process related to the $20 billion victims compensation fund run by Ken Feinberg.

COTE BLANCHE ISLAND, LA.  (December 20, 2010) – The area’s two biggest food banks, St. Mary Outreach in Morgan City and Solomon House in New Iberia, received the single biggest donations of the holiday season today -- $6,000 each from the Cote Blanche Salt Mine, which contributed $1 for each ton its crews mined last Friday.