BP declines invitation to three day oil spill hearings with top U.S. Officials. Mississippi state House Speaker Billy McCoy and Lt. Governor Phil Bryant created the Mississippi House of Representatives Select Committee on the Gulf Coast Disaster in May 2010. The mission of the Committee...
NFL champ Brett Favre's sister, Brandi Favre was in court on Thursday to face charges of crystal methamphetamine manufacuring at a condo in Mississippi. Brandi, a 34 year old Pass Christian, Mississippi, is facing two felony criminal charges for making meth and hazardous waste per reports from...
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from an offshore platform explosion on April 20, 2010 is worse than the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The Gulf of Mexico faces 210,000 gallons of crude oil furiously pouring out of the Deepwater Horizon site which claimed the lives of 11 workers. The only...
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr., prominent figure of the Civil Rights Movement, stood before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC and delivered his iconic "I Have A Dream" speech. The memorable words Martin Luther King Jr. delivered during his speech: "I am happy to join with you...
Constance McMillen's lesbianism cancelled her Mississippi prom or so McMillen fears. The Associated Press revealed that the eighteen year old senior's decision to attend her Spring Prom with her girlfriend caused the Itawamba Agricultural High School, in rural Mississippi, to cancel the event...
Morgan Haley, 24, has been charged with carjacking and assault after taking a car and attempting robbery, all while wearing a bikini. Mississippi Police Chief Tom Long said the carjacking victim gave up her car willingly, asking only for time to remove her children from inside. Long said the...
Jimmy Buffett, Dragonfly Boatworks, and crew try to save the Gulf Of Mexico one boat of the time. Mark Castlow, a Vero Beach, Florida boatbuilder and owner of Dragonfly Boatworks, recently appeared on CNN's AC360 with host Anderson Cooper to discuss his attempts at rescuing wildlife in the...
The harmonica was first developed in East Asia and later Europe during the 19th century. The harmonica, a free reed wind instrument, is also known as the French harp, blues harp, mouth organ, and less common names like the Mississippi saxophone, pocket sax, toe pickle, tin sandwich, and ten-holed...
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of The United States. Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York to Abraham Van Buren, a tavern keeper and farmer of Dutch descent, and Maria Hoes van Alen van Buren. Van Buren's early education began in a small school house in his...
A heat wave slams the U.S. with temperatures predicted by the National Weather Service to soar to the mid 90's throughout the first week of July in regions east of the Mississippi. High temperatures for New England south to Virginia and east of the Appalachian Mountains are expected to range...
