Smoke fills the air from a barge after a helicopter crash in the Mississippi River near Alton, Ill (Image credits: AP) Two people were killed Thursday morning when a helicopter struck a powerline and crashed into a barge on the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, sparking a fire.A video shared by a witness online […]
The body of 22-year-old Wisconsin graduate student Eliotte Heinz has been found in the Mississippi River, four days after she vanished following a night out with friends. Heinz, who studied at Viterbo University, was last seen in the early hours of Sunday after leaving the Bronco Bar in La Crosse. Her body was discovered just […]
Death sentence in 1976: Mississippi executes longest-serving death row inmate, Richard Jordan, after 49 years Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving prisoner on Mississippi’s death row, nearly 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter in a failed ransom plot was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday.Jordan,a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran, received the injection at 6 […]
In a move that could reshape the way Americans are taxed at the state level, Mississippi and Kentucky have launched ambitious plans to eliminate personal income taxes—something no US state has done in more than four decades.The last time this happened was in 1980, when oil-rich Alaska scrapped its income tax. Now, with budget surpluses […]
