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Caleb King ran for two fourth-quarter touchdowns, Bacarri Rambo made a jarring tackle that likely saved the tying score and Georgia assured itself of bowl eligibility, beating Auburn 31-24 Saturday night for its fourth straight win in the Deep South's oldest rivalry.
When Hurricane Katrina wrecked the little clinic here in the coastal backwaters of Alabama, Dr. Regina Benjamin laid out medical charts to dry in the post-storm sun and hopped in a pickup truck to check on her patients.
President Barack Obama nominated for surgeon general a rural family physician who has faced hurricanes, flood and fire to care for impoverished patients along Alabama's Gulf Coast.
A huge weather system stretching from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico piled more deep snow on parts of the Dakotas on Tuesday and battered parts of Texas with damaging hail.
Bitter cold kept its grip on the Northeast on Saturday, while warmer temperatures brought relief to the Midwest and Southeast.
Anne Hathaway's family drama "Rachel Getting Married," the border-smuggling tale "Frozen River" and the Deep South saga "Ballast" led nominees Tuesday for the Spirit Awards with six nominations each, including best picture.
Kentucky farmers whose crops wilted under a prolonged drought that expanded northward from the Deep South can expect some help from the federal government.
The drought that has plagued the Deep South for more than a year is creeping northward, and officials in multiple states are restricting outdoor burning in the face of water shortages and forest fire risks from falling leaves and tinder-dry conditions.
Rain and thunderstorms moved across the Appalachians and South early Tuesday while hazy, humid air smothered areas along the East Coast and snow was likely in the Northwest.
More rain, snow and thunderstorms were forecast for the Midwest on Friday, although no more severe weather was expected.
Chilly rain fell from the Great Lakes to New England early Friday, while storms left the Deep South unsettled and a mix of snow and rain pounded the Pacific Northwest.
Whites largely shunned Barack Obama in Mississippi's Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday as the Deep South showed once again its reluctance to embrace him across racial lines.
Barack Obama coasted to victory in Mississippi's Democratic primary Tuesday, latest in a string of racially polarized presidential contests across the Deep South and a final tune-up before next month's high-stakes race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania.
A storm system moved into the Northeast on Tuesday, bringing with it very messy weather. Rain with scattered thunderstorms spread across the Tennessee Valley, Southeast, the mid-Atlantic region and southern New England.
Tornadoes and other severe weather raked the Deep South on Tuesday, pushing Mississippi River ships around like toys, damaging homes and killing at least one person.
When civil rights elders signed on to support Hillary Rodham Clinton's run for president, it was seen as a coup in the competition for the black vote, especially in the Deep South.
Parts of the Mid-Atlantic region and southern New England got heavy rain on Friday, while Winter Weather Advisories were issued for northern New Hampshire and Maine.
Mississippians need to skip the gravy, say no to the fried pickles and start taking brisk walks to fight an epidemic of obesity, experts say. According to a new study, this Deep South state is the fattest in the nation.
John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil never got a free pass in life. The grandson of a man brought to this continent a slave, O'Neil moved to Kansas City to avoid racial persecution in the Deep South. He played baseball during an era of segregation, and earlier this year was denied entry into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by a special 12-member panel.
Obama's Southern Problem—And Ours"The New South," wrote journalist Robert Scheer in the 1970s, "is the Old South with air conditioning." Unfortunately, even 30 years of central home air hasn't cooled the white heat of the South.
Red-state residents buy the most online pornA Harvard Business School assistant professor who had access to customer receipts from dozens of adult websites found something titillating: The more conservative and religious a state is, the more likely its residents are to buy Web porn.
Barack Obama, John McCain and the Language of Race It was not that long ago that black people in the Deep South could be beaten or killed for seeking the right to vote, talking back to the wrong white man or failing to give way on the sidewalk.
American inequality highlighted by 30-year gap in life expectancy The United States of America is becoming less united by the day. A 30-year gap now exists in the average life expectancy between Mississippi, in the Deep South, and Connecticut, in prosperous New England.
Preventing Another Jena 6The circumstances are dramatic and, of course, recall the worst of the Deep South's Jim Crow legacy, when the noose and lynchings went hand in hand with abusive law enforcement.
Politics in Black and White Last Thursday there was a huge march in Jena, La., to protest the harsh and unequal treatment of six black students arrested in the beating of a white classmate.
The 'White Tree', Jena 6 and Untold StoriesThe tree that started all the trouble was one of those beautiful old Southern oaks with thick outspread boughs offering a haven of cool shade in the noon heat. It stood outside the high school in rural Jena, La., where it was known as the White Tree.
identity theft protection lags in deep south as credit freeze laws slow to adoptAn examination of the spread of credit freeze laws, an important tool in the fight against identity theft, it is discovered that such laws are lacking in most deep south states. This article examines such phenomena and potential reasons.
In Turnabout, Infant Deaths Climb in SouthPoverty? With no government programs? Increasing infant mortality rates? Who'dah thunk it thus...Paging Dr.
Cancer alert on arsenic in rice from USHIGH levels of arsenic which can cause cancer have been found in American rice, scientists warned yesterday. Experts are investigating how much rice eaten in Britain is affected by the toxic chemical.
Top Gear: AlabamaThe Top Gear guys travel to Alabama with infuriating slogans spray painted on their cars and just barely make it out of the Deep South alive.
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