When steel railroad mail cars began replacing the older, wooden cars, and the job became less dangerous, the Union of Railways Mail Clerks (The Railway Mail Association) became segregated.

The Drax wood pellet plants in Mississippi and Louisiana have paid millions for violating state pollution laws yet received at least $762 million in “green” loans.

Another blast of winter storms is closing schools, snarling flights and putting millions of residents on alert across parts of the Deep South and south-central U.S. The National Weather Service says heavy snowfall and icy conditions are likely Friday in Mississippi,

But the headline act was not the ship, it was the Mississippi itself. Dubbed “the great artery of America” by Civil War general William Sherman, and star of Mark Twain’s classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, this 2,340-mile river is a landmark that has shaped the culture, economy and soul of the United States.

That Carter had to say that at all illustrates how set apart the South was from the rest of the nation, even as late as the 1970s. That it never was again is a testament to what C

The weather forecast for the coming days calls for freezing temperatures and the possibility of snow for most of Mississippi.

Further south and east into Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, a wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain made travel treacherous. The storm dumped as much as 7 inches (about 18 centimeters ...