Miss. Court Reopens Bluesman Litigation
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The Mississippi Supreme Court has reopened litigation over who owns photographs and writings of bluesman Robert Johnson, nearly 14 months after declaring his son sole heir to royalties from the memorabilia.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun.
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State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. said it will stop writing new homeowner and commercial insurance in Mississippi following a legal battle over damage claims there from 2005's Hurricane Katrina.
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By Anonymous  GULFPORT - The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR) held a public hearing December 13 at 6 p.m.
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State Farm Mutual has reached an agreement with the Mississippi Insurance Commissioner to reopen disputed cases involving homes destroyed in Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the insurer said on Wednesday.
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A federal appeals court denied requests Wednesday to reinstate a lawsuit filed by hundreds of people affected by a race riot in Tulsa, Okla., in 1921.
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MICHAEL Jackson&#39;s lawyers went back to court today to ask for a delay in his child molestation trial, as prosecutors sought to raise evidence of the pop icon&#39;s alleged past crimes.
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Louis Pearlman, the creator of  boy bands like Backstreet Boys and &#39;N Sync, was remanded on  Monday to custody in Guam pending his transfer to Florida where  he faces charges of fraud.
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A federal appeals court Tuesday lifted a reprieve that had blocked the scheduled execution of a man convicted in a 1992 murder case in which the troubled Houston police crime lab allegedly mishandled evidence.
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A Nov. 4 special election date is now in place for the U.S. Senate seat vacated in late December by Mississippi Republican Trent Lott and currently held on an interim basis by Republican Roger Wicker. That date was permitted Wednesday by the state's Supreme Court, ruling in a partisan dispute over the scheduling of the contest.
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A judge reinstated criminal charges Wednesday against a small-town mayor who got in trouble for marrying a series of gay couples last year.
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Dumped husband uses little-known Mississippi state law to win Â£750,000 over wife's affair and remarriage
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 11--GAUTIER -- City personnel are seeking grant money to fund an environmental court that would help enforce Gautier's laws on property care and cleanup.
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A court ruling that forces voters to register by party could return Mississippi to the days of racially polarized politics.
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The international war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor reopened Monday, six months after it was adjourned when he boycotted the opening session and fired his attorney.
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A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a jury's &#36;8.5 million award to the family of a boy paralyzed in a car seat.
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A battle over ownership of Michael Jackson memorabilia is headed back to a Nevada courtroom, where the King of Pop is seeking the return of items withheld from an auction of family items.