Breaking News, World Updates & Headlines
Breaking News, World Updates & Headlines
This liveblog is now closed. Read the full story hereKey things to know about Hurricane IsaiasSign up for the US Breaking News emailFlorida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, said no requests for search and rescue assistance had been received following Isaias, …
Read MoreGovernors of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida declared states of emergency as a downsized Fema faces first major testHurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, on Friday evening, sweeping ashore from the northern Gulf of Mexico as the first A…
Read MoreAlabama, Florida and Mississippi declare emergencies, with preparations under way for ‘long-duration power outages’Hurricane Isaias neared landfall Friday evening, barreling toward the US Gulf coast coast as a dangerous category 2 storm and prompting e…
Read MoreStorm expected to make landfall on US’s northern Gulf coast with risk of flash floods and isolated river floodingIsaias has become the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season, with wind speeds of 80mph and a minimum pressure of 975mb. It is expecte…
Read MoreFlowers, tried six times over 1996 murders of four people, faced execution before supreme court tossed his convictionCurtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the US supreme court thre…
Read MoreResidents are making careful choices about whether to leave their homes or stock up and stay.
Read MoreLawyers for Wells’s family have called for a federal investigation into 18-year-old’s disappearance and deathOn Wednesday, Donald Trump said he was considering asking the FBI to investigate the death of Nolan Wells, a Black college freshman who was las…
Read MoreOwens sued over September Instagram post that suggested trio tampered with evidence in death of Mississippi teenThree friends of Nolan Wells, a Mississippi teen who died after a July boating trip, have sued NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens for defamatio…
Read MoreAidan Hamilton and Robert Strang died after apparently ingesting kratom product last monthFederal authorities investigating the recent deaths of two University of Mississippi students have charged a store clerk and his son with selling an illegal krato…
Read MoreDozens of residents testify to legislature’s redistricting committee in heated hearing, the last of eight Hundreds of people gathered across from the Mississippi state capitol building on Thursday evening to rally against the aggressive Republican effo…
Read MorePolice said Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed before her body was placed in the tree, and the scene was ‘staged’A Mississippi judge set a $5m bond on Monday for a third man charged in the death of a Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in A…
Read MoreEric Clark, 45, charged with murder as autopsy concludes Fortune was dead days before body discovered in treeA third person has been arrested in the death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune in Mississippi’s capital city, while investigators said they had det…
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