Only abortion clinic in Miss. fights to stay open

In this April 15, 2013 photograph, abortion opponent Corrie Zastrow, left, calls out to patients while clinic escorts secure signs on the front gates to prevent abortion opponents from visually confronting patients as they enter the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss…

Only abortion clinic in Miss. fights to stay open

In this April 15, 2013 photograph, Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic owner Diane Derzis, right, is followed by abortion opponent Chet Gallagher of Las Vegas, Nev., outside her business in Jackson, Miss. Abortion opponents gather outside the clinic several times a week for a morning …

Only abortion clinic in Miss. fights to stay open

In this April 15, 2013 photograph, abortion opponents gather outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic for a morning prayer service, in Jackson, Miss. The 2012 Mississippi law requires each doctor who performs abortions at the clinic to have admitting privileges at a local hospi…

Only abortion clinic in Miss. fights to stay open

In this April 15, 2013 photograph, abortion opponents gather outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic for a morning prayer service, in Jackson, Miss. The 2012 Mississippi law requires each doctor who performs abortions at the clinic to have admitting privileges at a local hospi…

Only abortion clinic in Miss. fights to stay open

In this April 15, 2013 photograph, clinic escorts Stacey Spiehler, left, and Sarah Roberts walk back to their posts after securing signs on the clinic's lawn with messages to counter those of the abortion opponents that gather outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson…

Water

A customer takes a bottle of water off a store shelf in Jackson, Miss. As sugary drinks come under fire for fueling obesity rates, people are increasingly reaching for bottled water as a healthier, relatively affordable alternative. Already, bottled water has surged past juice, milk and beer…

Healthier School Foods

Side salads, apple sauce and plums await the students of Eastside Elementary School in Clinton, Miss. The government for the first time is proposing broad new standards to make school snacks healthier, a move that would ban the sale of almost all candy, high-calorie sports drinks and greasy …

Goodbye candy bars and sports drinks. Hello baked chips and diet sodas.

In this Sept. 12, 2012 file photo, side salads, apple sauce and plums await the students of Eastside Elementary School in Clinton, Miss. The government for the first time is proposing broad new standards to make school snacks healthier, a move that would ban the sale of almost all candy, hig…

Cody Green

Tulsa quarterback Cody Green, center, sprints into the end zone against Iowa State with a 7-yard second-quarter touchdown run in the Liberty Bowl.

Ohio faces bowl newcomer ULM in Independence Bowl

Louisiana-Monroe's wide receiver Brent Leonard speaks about bowl preparations during a news conference for the Independence Bowl. Louisiana-Monroe is scheduled to play Ohio Friday.

MISSISSIPPI ROAD TRIP: The Ancestors Inside Us and the Precious Right to Vote

In this June 8, 2012 photograph, Roan Oak, the home of the late Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner, in Oxford, Miss., is a prime tourist attraction in the community. Designated a National Historical Landmark, the home is now owned and maintained by the University of Mississippi as a museu…

Isaac steers clear of direct blow on New Orleans

Isaac's winds and storm surge flood parts of Waveland, Miss., Wednesday, the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast.

Officials may breach levee as Isaac storms inland

Isaac's winds and storm surge overcomes the seawall Wednesday and floods Terrace Avenue in Waveland, Miss. on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast.

Starting an art collection? Take time to learn

Harold Corbin, holding his dog Macey, shows some of his art collection that lines the stairwell leading to an upstairs gallery at his Madison, Miss., home. Corbin, who developed an interest in art while in college, began buying art after he had established his career as an accountant.

Starting an art collection? Take time to learn

The inside of Harold Corbin's home and some of his extensive art collection in Madison, Miss.

Joe Vinson

Joe Vinson, a Vicksburg-Warren County School District engineer technician, refuels a pump to keep the Yazoo River backwaters from coming through the storm drain Sunday at the Redwood Elementary School in Redwood, Miss. Floodwaters from the Mississippi River and its tributaries which are not …

River Flooding Mississippi

A bobber from a fishing pole sits in floodwaters near a mailbox in the Cedar School Circle neighborhood of south Vicksburg, Miss. Residents fished from whatever dry land there was for brim, perch and carp.

Pinetop Perkins remembered by region musicians

In this Oct. 11, 2009 file photo, Grammy winning blues pianist Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins motions a "thumbs up" gesture during the annual festival at Hopson Plantation in Clarksdale, Miss. Perkins, one of the last old-school bluesmen and oldest Grammy winner, died March 21.

Gladys Scott, Jamie Scott

Gladys Scott, right answers a question while her sister Jamie Scott, left, listens at a news conference in Jackson, Miss., Friday. The two sisters, whose life sentences were suspended on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other were released from a Mississippi prison earlier in th…