American journeyman Ryan Armour fired a four-under par 68 on Sunday to capture his first US PGA Tour title at the Sanderson Farms Championship.
Armour, 41, had surged to a five-shot lead through 54 holes.
He had six birdies in his four-under effort on Sunday at the Country Club of Jackson, Mississippi, for a 72-hole total of 269 and aRead more
Nissan has defeated a bid by the United Auto Workers to unionize employees at a factory in the US Deep South, ending a bitter contest that critics said laid bare a racial divide in the company.
Some 60 percent of the approximately 3,500 workers in the Mississippi factory rejected the union in the vote that ended Friday, according to resultsRead more
A freight train crashed into a bus full of Texas tourists visiting Gulf Coast casinos, killing four in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Forty people were hurt, seven critically. The cause of the Tuesday afternoon crash was under investigation.
Witnesses told Mississippi news outlets the bus appeared to have been stuck on the tracks when it was hit. The crossing is on aRead more
When PBF Energy scooped up a refinery from Exxon Mobil on the Mississippi River in 2015, it wasted no time sprucing up the plant with an eye toward quickly resuming lucrative fuel exports.
Within three months, PBF was ready to load its first tanker for shipment abroad. By late last year, the New Jersey-based company was exporting 22,000 barrels aRead more
A California doctor removed a 130-pound (58kg) tumour from a Mississippi man who had been told by other physicians that he was just fat.
Roger Logan, 57, had the non-cancerous growth removed on January 31 at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, where he will remain for another week or so before returning to Gulfport, Mississippi.
The tumour probably started as an ingrownRead more
Major tornadoes thrashed multiple states in southeast United States on Saturday and Sunday, killing at least 18 people and causing material damage.
The states of Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Georgia are among those hit by extreme weather. 14 were killed in Georgia while four were killed in Mississippi.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal on Sunday announced a state of emergency forRead more
A dangerous weekend weather system has killed at least 18 people in the U.S. South, as Georgia officials on Sunday reported more than a dozen deaths after severe thunderstorms and tornadoes buffeted several states.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal declared an emergency for seven counties in the south-central part of the state, warning that dangerous conditions persisted and could reach northRead more