A former tax assessor and collector in Mississippi has checked into a residential treatment center for a gambling addiction after he called the state auditor’s office and confessed to misusing more than $300,000 in public money
September 03, 2024A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy is seeking a shorter federal prison sentence for his part in the torture of two Black men
August 26, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is accepting the Democrats’ presidential nomination Thursday exactly 60 years after another Black woman mesmerized the nation with a speech that still resonates in American politics
August 21, 2024
Federal judges say Mississippi can wait until next year to redraw some of its legislative districts to replace ones where Black voting power is diluted
July 18, 2024A Mississippi judge has removed one of the attorneys representing retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre in a state civil lawsuit that seeks to recover misspent welfare money
July 15, 2024Voting rights attorneys say Mississippi should work quickly to redraw some legislative districts to ensure more equitable representation for Black residents
July 12, 2024Mississippi election officials say redrawing legislative districts in time for this November’s election is impossible because of tight deadlines to prepare ballots
July 11, 2024
A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that found Mississippi relies too much on institutionalizing people with mental health conditions rather than providing care in their communities
September 20, 2023
Longtime Mississippi civil rights activist Hollis Watkins has died
September 22, 2023
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a new law regulating transgender people’s use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories in public education buildings
May 13, 2024
Democrat Brandon Presley is trying to block Republican Gov. Tate Reeves from winning a second term in Mississippi
October 30, 2023
A tech industry group says a new Mississippi law requiring users of websites and other digital services to verify their age will unconstitutionally limit access to online speech for minors and adults
June 07, 2024
Top Mississippi lawmakers have started negotiating on what could become a landmark plan to expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of people in one of the poorest states in the U.S. But even with Republicans controlling both the state House and Senate, it’s far from clear that they will reach a compromise
April 23, 2024
Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some felonies
April 17, 2024
Mississippi Republicans are choosing a candidate to face off against a longtime Democratic congressman
April 02, 2024
A former Mississippi police officer has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge after authorities say he forced a man to lick his own urine off the floor of a jail cell
March 14, 2024
Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a new law that will allow women to receive Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy
March 13, 2024
Mississippians have voted in party primaries for four seats in the U.S. House and one in the Senate
March 12, 2024
The Republican senator who gave the party’s response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address used a harrowing account of a young woman’s sexual abuse to attack his border policies, but the rapes did not happen in the U.S. or during the Biden administration
March 09, 2024
A Civil War battlefield in Mississippi is providing more information about Black history
February 29, 2024
Mississippi’s Republican attorney general is suing the Republican state auditor, trying to block the auditor’s effort to recover misspent welfare money from retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre
February 22, 2024
Author Ellen Gilchrist has died at age 88
February 02, 2024
Mississippi could start providing Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy in a bid to improve health outcomes for moms and babies
January 31, 2024
A new lawsuit says opening a spillway as a flood-control measure in 2019 sent polluted fresh water from the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico and killed bottlenose dolphins that live in saltwater
January 24, 2024
A federal judge will allow Mississippi officials to move forward with creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson
January 01, 2024
Multiple people shot along I-75 in southeastern Kentucky, authorities say
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