Maine has some of the darkest skies east of the Mississippi River.

JACKSON, Miss. ( WLBT /Gray News) - A Mississippi state senator has filed a bill titled the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act.” The bill, written by Sen. Bradford Blackman, would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

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Philip Dutart Carter, the scion of a notable journalism family who invested in alternative weekly newspapers in Louisiana before turning his hand to real estate, died Jan. 5 at his Camden, Maine, home. He was 85. His daughter, Cecilia Carter Monahan, confirmed the death.

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, he has built the most formidable foundation of Republican electoral strength since the Ronald Reagan era in the 1980s.

Residents across parts of the Gulf Coast and South are bracing for a rare winter storm expected to drop heavy snow and create treacherous conditions, including freezing rain and sleet.

Residents across the country from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine are bracing for dangerously low temperatures

The blizzard warning in effect until midday Tuesday was the first issued by the office in Lake Charles, Louisiana, according to meteorologist Donald Jones.

Heavy snow is expected to blanket large portions of the Eastern U.S. while much of the country will endure dangerously cold temperatures in the coming days

Most of the United States is being assailed with extreme winter weather this week as Arctic air blasts south from Canada, snow tracks up the Northeast coast and a potentially crippling winter storm takes aim at the South.

The storm has prompted the first ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas-Louisiana border

Climate change is in the headlines. From the chill of northern Alaska to the heat of Arizona, here are the coldest and warmest cities in each U.S. state.