Meet Rhonda Phillips, who grew up near Bassfield. We talked with her about her Mississippi roots and her path to the presidency of Chatham University.

Her grandparents are Margie Savage of Loxley, Ala., the late John C. Savage and the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Linn Wallace of Strong. A 1996 graduate of Pascagoula High School, she received a Bachelor ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (CBS/AP) Paul Everette Woodward said a prayer before being put to death by lethal injection Wednesday for the 1986 rape and murder of 24-year-old Rhonda Crane. "I would like to say ...