Being obese can take years off your life and in some cases may be as dangerous as smoking, a new study says. British researchers at the University of Oxford analyzed 57 studies mostly in Europe and North America, following nearly one million people for an

Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. has settled a lawsuit against one of Mississippi’s top legal firms as it was scheduled to go to trial in federal court in Oxford.

A Mississippi attorney convicted of conspiring to influence a judge in a major judicial bribery case has been sentenced to three years in federal prison.

Abhisit Vejjajiva _ a patrician 44-year-old with an Oxford education _ became Thailand’s prime minister on Monday amid hopes that he can calm the political storms that have battered the country for the past three years.

Business school students at Oxford University plan to spend at least one of their breaks in Dubai, not just to swap gray skies for sunny ones but to secure something more lasting: a job.

House Republican leader John Boehner has used a vulgar expression to refer to Democrat Barack Obama and his voting record in the Illinois legislature.

The critical first debate between John McCain and Barack Obama gained an even brighter spotlight Friday night as financial markets teetered and the contenders traded recriminations over McCain’s involvement in a possible economic rescue.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he expects the first presidential debate to go ahead, though he says he doesn’t have any inside information.

Two generations ago, bullets flew and tear gas canisters exploded among the magnolias as segregationists fought federal authorities over the court-ordered admission of the first black student to the University of Mississippi.

The son of anti-tobacco lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for knowing about a judicial bribery scandal and not reporting it to authorities.Zach Scruggs was sentenced Wednesday by the same federal judge who last...