A man accused of killing women in Louisiana and Mississippi is back in northeast Louisiana, where a prosecutor says a grand jury will consider charges in a Taiwanese woman's stabbing death in 2015.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee was 17 when he joined the Kappa Alpha fraternity at Auburn University, which every spring held an "Old South" party where he and other members dressed in Confederate uniforms.
CHICAGO (AP) - "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett staged a racist, anti-gay attack on himself because he was unhappy about his salary and wanted to promote his career, Chicago's police superintendent said Thursday. Before the attack, Smollett also sent a letter that threatened him to the studio in Chicago where "Empire" is shot, Superintendent Eddie Johnson said.
It's been more than 3 weeks since Pandora Duckett disappeared. The 87-year-old has Alzheimer's disease, and wandered off from her home, in Raleigh. There are more than 30,000 diagnosed cases of Alzheimer's right here in Shelby County.
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - Federal authorities say a Coast Guard officer who espoused white supremacist views and dreamed of mass murder drew up a computer-spreadsheet hit list of Democratic politicians and TV journalists. Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, who worked at Coast Guard headquarters in Washington as an acquisitions officer on a program to equip the agency with advanced new cutters, faces a federal court hearing Thursday on gun and drug offenses.
The City of Memphis is shrinking. City leaders say their work is done after council members voted to de-annex South Cordova, but the neighborhood's exit won't be quiet.
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