Sipp News
Sipp News is a roundup of various news stories from across The Sipp from accredited news agencies.
These are photos of just some of the two dozen prison-made objects photographer Daniella Zalcman was able to track down using state prison industries catalogs and social media accounts.
Tim Davenport and Michael Graham used their boat to assist in flood rescues after remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur caused widespread flooding in Stone County on June 18.
The union representing Jackson bus employees plans to go on strike early Monday unless negotiators reach an agreement by Sunday to avert the walkout.
Nearly a month after police in Mississippi shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley outside Walmart in Senatobia, department officials released a brief report Friday about the shoplifting call that led to the fatal encounter. But the two-page report — obtained by Mississippi Today through a public records request — contains almost no details of what happened.
A special session is needed because the youth court law expired when lawmakers failed to address it in this year’s regular session.
The governor announced on social media that he had appointed Brad McCullouch to the post of Hinds County DA. McCullouch has worked in the office as an assistant district attorney since 2023.
Many questions remain unanswered after 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells from Ocean Springs was last seen on the Fourth of July and his body found two days later off Horn Island.
Many of those who pushed for voting rights in Mississippi and the rest of the Deep South fear the Callais Supreme Court decision on redistricting will be a major step backwards.
Litigation began in 2022 when a group of Black voters and politicians sued, alleging that the state Supreme Court districts violate the Voting Rights Act. A federal judge in a ruling last year agreed with the plaintiffs.
