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April 13, 2020

Mississippi group prays for hospital staff, patients during lunch break

A Mississippi prayer group drove their cars to the front of a hospital to worship and pray over the staff and patients inside in a touching moment amid the coronavirus pandemic. 

April 13, 2020

Mississippi deputy, wife among tornado victims, officer 'left this world a hero' shielding wife from storm: department

A sheriff's deputy and his wife in Mississippi are among the dead after a tornado struck on Easter Sunday, part of a widespread deadly storm system leaving devastation across the South. 

April 13, 2020

Most extreme measures during coronavirus lockdown, state by state

Some states have taken to extreme measures to ensure that citizens adhere to social distancing, stay-at-home orders.

April 13, 2020

Coronavirus-hit Mississippi, Louisiana, pounded by tornadoes, with at least 20 dead in the region

Mississippi and Louisiana – two states dealing with an increase of coronavirus cases – were hit Sunday with a deadly storm system that produced dozens of tornadoes that ripped through hundreds of homes and buildings, resulting in at least 17 deaths reported in the region.

April 12, 2020

Tornadoes raging across South kill at least 6 in Mississippi, damage hundreds of buildings in Louisiana

Powerful storms raged across the Deep South on Easter Sunday, killing at least six people in Mississippi and damaging hundreds of buildings in Louisiana.

April 12, 2020

Tornadoes strike multiple states as severe weather outbreak unfolds on Easter in South

More than a dozen confirmed tornadoes have struck from Texas to Mississippi on Sunday, damaging homes, as the South faced an onslaught of severe weather.

April 11, 2020

Mississippi city's coronavirus shutdown bans drive-in church services ahead of Easter

Drive-in church services that attempt to adhere to social distancing guidelines by keeping worshipers physically apart from one another in their own cars will not be allowed this Easter Sunday in at least one Mississippi community, as the coronavirus crisis has left wide swaths of the country shut down.

April 11, 2020

More than 2,200 have died of coronavirus inside nursing homes but feds aren’t tracking the numbers: report

A new tally shows 2,246 people have died inside nursing home deaths from the coronavirus in at least 24 states.

April 9, 2020

Mississippi puts ingenuity to the test in the fight against coronavirus

Respiratory failure associated with Covid-19 has sent the demand for ventilators soaring across the country. In Mississippi, an overwhelming surge of coronavirus patients hasn’t been as issue, by large, for hospitals around the state. But state and medical officials are preparing for the worse. 

April 6, 2020

Mississippi couple's death from coronavirus came as they held each other's hands

The coronavirus has claimed the lives of a Mississippi man and his wife who died minutes apart in a hospital room as they held each other’s hand.