Teens allegedly stole car in Mississippi after mother left car outside supermarket.

Two police officers have been shot dead in the US state of Mississippi and police are hunting for a suspect.

Down in Clarksdale, Mississippi, juke joints keep up the flow of beer and festival revellers soak up the music, finds Jack Barlow.

As America's oldest highway marks its centenary, Chris Moss rounds up the options for a US fly-drive.

Mississippi is breaking ground on side-by-side museums that are expected to set precedents of their own in how they depict the Southern state once rocked by racial turmoil.

Year round, Clarksdale draws tourists from all over the world eager to gaze across wide-open cotton fields and tread the same ground as Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Ike Turner, John Lee Hooker and others.

Kevin Pilley gets comfortable on the Mississippi's water.