Tupelo

A plane has been circling over the US city of Tupelo, Mississippi, and the pilot has threatened to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. Local media reports say the pilot is an airport employee.

A pilot, circling a stolen airplane for hours over Tupelo, a city in northeast Mississippi in the United states, threatening to "intentionally crash" it into a Walmart store has been taken into custody after he landed the aircraft safely.

Dubai-based wearable technology company Tupelo has launched the Mymo fitness tracker that offers rewards such as free talk time for activity.

At least 34 people were killed in tornadoes unleashed by a ferocious storm system that razed neighborhoods in the southern United States over the last three days and threatened more destruction in heavily populated parts of the South on Tuesday.

On a second day of ferocious storms that have claimed at least 21 lives in the southern United States, a tornado tore through the Mississippi town of Tupelo on Monday destroying homes and businesses, according to witnesses and emergency officials.

A Mississippi martial arts instructor was named in a five-count indictment charging him with mailing ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and two other public officials, authorities said on Monday.

A Mississippi martial arts instructor suspected of mailing letters containing the deadly poison ricin to President Barack Obama and other US officials appeared in federal court on Monday for a brief hearing.

A Mississippi martial arts instructor was charged on Saturday with attempting to use a biological weapon after a ricin-laced letter was sent to President Barack Obama earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Federal agents arrested a Mississippi martial arts instructor on Saturday after his home and a former business were searched as part of an investigation into ricin-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and two other public officials.

Of three ricin-laced letters mailed this month to public officials, only one made it into the hands of an intended target, 80-year-old Mississippi judge Sadie Holland.

US prosecutors dropped charges on Tuesday against a Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, a US senator and a state judge, according to court documents.

Comcast Corp clinched full control of NBC Universal for $16.7 billion on Tuesday, the latest in a series of deals that have taken the cable operator from humble roots in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Manhattan's iconic Rockerfeller Center.

A plane has been circling over the US city of Tupelo, Mississippi, and the pilot has threatened to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. Local media reports say the pilot is an airport employee.

A pilot, circling a stolen airplane for hours over Tupelo, a city in northeast Mississippi in the United states, threatening to "intentionally crash" it into a Walmart store has been taken into custody after he landed the aircraft safely.

Dubai-based wearable technology company Tupelo has launched the Mymo fitness tracker that offers rewards such as free talk time for activity.

At least 34 people were killed in tornadoes unleashed by a ferocious storm system that razed neighborhoods in the southern United States over the last three days and threatened more destruction in heavily populated parts of the South on Tuesday.

On a second day of ferocious storms that have claimed at least 21 lives in the southern United States, a tornado tore through the Mississippi town of Tupelo on Monday destroying homes and businesses, according to witnesses and emergency officials.

A Mississippi martial arts instructor was named in a five-count indictment charging him with mailing ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and two other public officials, authorities said on Monday.

A Mississippi martial arts instructor suspected of mailing letters containing the deadly poison ricin to President Barack Obama and other US officials appeared in federal court on Monday for a brief hearing.

A Mississippi martial arts instructor was charged on Saturday with attempting to use a biological weapon after a ricin-laced letter was sent to President Barack Obama earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Federal agents arrested a Mississippi martial arts instructor on Saturday after his home and a former business were searched as part of an investigation into ricin-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and two other public officials.

Of three ricin-laced letters mailed this month to public officials, only one made it into the hands of an intended target, 80-year-old Mississippi judge Sadie Holland.

US prosecutors dropped charges on Tuesday against a Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, a US senator and a state judge, according to court documents.

Comcast Corp clinched full control of NBC Universal for $16.7 billion on Tuesday, the latest in a series of deals that have taken the cable operator from humble roots in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Manhattan's iconic Rockerfeller Center.