Sipp News

Deep South Today on Monday convened a virtual forum, which was sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, to examine what the 2026 data reveals about children in the region.

Mississippi’s Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Council has selected the Denver-based health consulting firm Steadman Group to advise the committee’s grant application process for the upcoming cycle.

Gov. Tate Reeves and a national defense official said that stopping the turbines would pose a national security risk and threaten U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence.

The Starkville Derby draws thousands of people to north Mississippi each spring. The festival’s big attraction? Watching wiener dogs race.

An officer in north Mississippi opened fire on a car of a possible shoplifter, killing a 1-year-old boy and critically wounding an adult.

Barney Schoby has died at 87. He was a longtime civil rights leader in Adams County, Mississippi, and served in the state House from 1980 to 1997.

“Voter Voices” is a series of Mississippians sharing their thoughts on voting rights, the state’s history of voter suppression and the new gerrymandering push embroiling Mississippi, the South and the nation.

Marshall Ramsey’s editorial cartoon shows a man sitting under a PSC sign, wearing a paper bag over his head as he holds an Amazon data center contract. One onlooker tells another: “You get used to it.”

Jabe Boroff hit the tiebreaking double in a four-run seventh inning and Troy and its potent offense kept the program’s first College World Series appearance going with a 12-8 win over Mississippi in an elimination game.

Mississippi’s redistricting efforts to eliminate Black districts after U.S. Supreme Court ruling could prove “everything old is new again.”