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AP - Voters chose governors in Mississippi and Kentucky on Tuesday, casting ballots that could foreshadow the public's political mood just two months ahead of the first presidential primary and nearly four years into the worst economic slowdown since the Depression. More...

Mississippi voters cast ballots on Tuesday in party primary elections to choose candidates for the governorship in one of four states due to hold gubernatorial contests in the fall. Lieutenant Governor Phil Bryant was declared the winner in the Republican primary out of a field of five...

Angola, Louisiana Prisoners in southeastern Louisiana are helping to fill sandbags and patch up levee holes along the swollen Mississippi in an all-hands-on-deck effort to keep the mighty river at bay. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, parts of the sprawling prison...

Vicksburg, Mississippi (CNN) -- Storms were forecast Saturday for areas already suffering from the swollen Mississippi River, as Mississippi's governor urged caution. The rain comes as the Mississippi River was cresting in Natchez, Mississippi. The water was cresting at 61.8 feet, or 13.8 feet...

Vicksburg, Mississippi (CNN) -- Nervous anticipation. That is the feeling permeating through Vicksburg, Mississippi, as it awaits a historic flood crest to wash through the area later this week. The Mississippi River, already at record levels, is forecast to peak early Thursday more than a foot...

The temporary walls erected at Vicksburg to hold back floodwaters were under fresh strain on Sunday as Mississippi River water levels set new records. One day after officials opened a floodway downriver to speed the flow through the lower Mississippi Valley and spare two of Louisiana's largest...

(CNN) -- A near-record crest is forecast in Greenville, Mississippi, Tuesday as the bloated Mississippi River makes its relentless march toward the Gulf. By the weekend, flood waters are expected to peak at record levels in Vicksburg and Natchez, Mississippi, as well as in Red River Landing and...

-- The two Mississippi sisters whose jail sentences were suspended on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other will leave prison Friday, a state official said. Gladys and Jamie Scott will be released at 8 a.m. from the prison in Pearl, just outside of Jackson, said Mississippi...

India's ambassador to the U.S. was subjected to a security pat-down at a Mississippi airport. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/12/09/pkg.indian.ambassador.airport.WAPT

A tornado touched down in Yazoo County, Mississippi, on Monday night, causing damage to a downtown Yazoo City courthouse and tossing widespread debris in the area, officials said. The twister touched down around 8:05 p.m., according to the National Weather Service's Jackson, Mississippi...

Toyota resumes construction in Mississippi BLUE SPRINGS, Miss., (UPI) -- Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. said it was confident enough in the economy to resume construction of a factory in Mississippi. "We're confident that we're seeing things improving," Toyota Motor Sales USA President...