The state’s Division of Public Health said the data breach happened when a temporary staff member sent two unencrypted emails in August that included files with the test results, names, dates of birth and phone numbers of 10,000 people.

In Michigan, high schools and colleges will be stopping in-person classes, restaurants will be closed to indoor dining and organized sports will be halted— including the football playoffs — in a bid to curb the state's spiking coronavirus cases.

Leading progressives are pressuring President-elect Joe Biden to embrace their policy agenda even as more centrist Democrats argue such proposals prevented the party from retaking full control of Congress.

Community leaders and law enforcement officers met Sunday to have an open discussion about the rise in crime in Jackson.

Vicksburg police arrested a man accused of pulling a gun on a man and woman.

The annual Christmas parade in Terry has been canceled due to COVID-19.

"This would have been a $4 million impact had we been at our full capacity," General Manager Jimmy Grant said.

Police said a male victim was shot on Fortification Street while washing cars.

16 WAPT meteorologist Christana Kay has the forecast for Jackson and Central Mississippi.

Four astronauts climbed aboard a SpaceX rocket Sunday for a night ride to the International Space Station.

Walmart has resumed counting and monitoring the number of customers that enter and leave it stores. This comes as coronavirus cases in the U.S. hit daily highs.

The doctor said he is "terrified" about what's going to happen this holiday season.

One of the scientists behind the experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer has said he was confident that it could halve the transmission of the virus.

Tiger Woods would have hoped to finish his Masters title defense with a strong final round. Instead he suffered a humiliating meltdown on the hole that was so kind to him in his 2019 triumph at Augusta National.

President Donald Trump has wrongly claimed that Georgia election officials are unable to verify signatures on absentee ballot envelopes because of a legal settlement known as a consent decree.

Dustin Johnson capped off a one-of-a-kind Masters with a performance never seen at Augusta National.

"The cruelest part of this disease is just not being able to be with him," Jeff Vastola, the doctor's son, said.

It looks like you really can buy anything at Costco.

A singer who went viral on TikTok for making videos of himself annoying his girlfriend with his songs is also touching people's hearts with his music.

The Dodgers said Sunday that their 93-year-old former manager was resting comfortably at a hospital.

It's proof that an age-old hobby in Western Europe identified with working-class men now has a new, elitist foreign lease on life.

President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to acknowledge for the first time that Joe Biden won the White House but made clear he would not concede.

Because COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in the U.S., there is no way to determine yet whether in-person voting on Election Day contributed to the surge, public health experts said.

For NASA, it marks the long-awaited start of regular crew rotations, with private companies providing the lifts.

It might be time to break out that telescope.

Maybe we shouldn't feel as guilty about those holiday treats.

An Ohio fire department helped give a 3-year-old boy a special welcome home after beating cancer.

53 inmates tests positive for Covid-19 at Marshall County Correctional Facility

The Super Bowl is scheduled for the first Sunday in February at Raymond James Stadium in Florida, at a time when total U.S. deaths from the coronavirus are projected to be nearly 400,000.

Give yourself the gift of a clean and organized house before December stress sets in.