After a month-long descent, the Florida Gators moved up the USA TODAY Sports college football rerank for a second consecutive week. Florida is ranked No. 56 after a Week 6 upset win over the Texas ...

Just 25 years ago, Suriname, the smallest country in South America, had the continent’s highest malaria rates. Now it has become the first Amazon nation to be declared malaria-free.

Our PGA Pro, Keith Stewart from Read The Line, serves up his best bets for the 2025 Baycurrent Classic this weekend.

Catherine S. Comeaux and her family spent three summers exploring state, national and provincial parks — from Louisiana to Alaska then Nova Scotia and along the Mississippi River in between. This year ...

College students are meeting with “embedded” counselors in dorms and academic buildings, with promising results. By Christina Caron As a child, Xiomara Garcia, 21, assumed that attending a four-year ...

Below is an opinion column by R.J. Morgan: Editor’s note: A program on music icon Bob Dylan’s connection to Mississippi and the Civil Rights Movement will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Overby ...

We’re just as human as everybody else, so we have the same issues and problems everyone has to deal with,” Picayune Police Chief Joe Quave said.

If you want to find the darkest skies in the Empire State without having to drive home at night, the hamlet of Swan Lake is home to incredible New York Airbnb stargazing. For those of us close to the ...

Kayla Sheehan, MD, listened carefully as her patient, a woman in her 30s with no symptoms or family history of pancreatic cancer, asked about getting screened for the disease. As a primary and ...

BEING/TOKYO: Japan's incoming prime minister Sanae Takaichi is reportedly skipping a visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in the coming week, a move Beijing will read for clues on whether she ...

Clemson's Dabo Swinney and UNLV's Dan Mullen and Kentucky's Mark Stoops are among the college football coaches with fascinating contract situations.

Both pro- and anti-abortion advocacy groups spoke out against the proposed Unborn Child Protection Act at aSenate committee hearing.