National Nursing Home week is in full swing.

From stronger beer to faster marriage licenses, laws cover many bases.

Can you really exist on 500 calories a day without feeling tired and hungry all the time? Should you even try? 

Doctors were focus of raids in Columbus last year.

Second major incident involving dogs in three weeks.

A Lowndes County woman is sentenced to 10 years in prison for abusing a handicapped woman.

An Attala County doctor was struck by a vehicle and killed as he rode his bike on the Natchez Trace.

National non profit KaBOOM! has recognized Starkville and Amory as two of 213 cities across the country for its efforts to increase play opportunities for children and designated it a Playful City USA community for the second year in a row. 

Colon Terrell tours state as he walks across American to celebrate retirement after 41 years of working and to raise money for the American Heart Association. He stopped at OCH Regional Medical center and toured the Wellness Connection and Cardiac Rehab facilities.

A bond package that would have provided funding for repairs and new construction across Mississippi died when a Saturday deadline passed, though the legislature continued making strides Sunday to finish the budget process.