Federal officials are moving a step closer to allowing state and federal prisons to jam cellphone signals from devices smuggled to inmates.

The Mississippi House Democratic leader says a Medicaid expansion plan endorsed by Republican leaders could struggle for bipartisan support.

BET won’t be sold after all: Paramount Global decided against selling the majority stake of the network.

Cincinnati begins this week at the top of the national sacks chart after recording 11 against Tulsa.

Hank Williams Jr. is unleashing his alter ego Thunderhead Hawkins on a new record of raunchy blues songs.

Bill Luckett was an attorney, small-town mayor, candidate for Mississippi governor, storyteller, blues promoter and business partner and friend of Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman.

He went back with Byrd in 1946 for Operation Highjump, then joined another U.S. Navy expedition there, Operation Windmill, in 1948. The son of a chief warrant officer in San Diego, Johnson was a Sea Scout who trained on sailing ships as a teen. That experience didnt keep him from the sea: He joined the Navy two years later on a battleship and then volunteered for Byrds expedition. Johnson, in fact, is most likely the last living member of any prewar polar expedition by any country, said Glenn Stein, a polar and maritime historian from Apopka. I dont think any Sea Scout today could do that.