Jurors convicted Tameshia Shelton of murder without seeing the victim’s apparent suicide note. If freed, her case would mark a state record: seven exonerations in the same judicial district.
Marshall Ramsey’s editorial cartoon depicts a blues man standing at a crossroads where signs point to a data center, an ICE facility and a closed hospital.
Louisiana lawmakers have passed a new congressional map to pick up a Republican seat while leaving the state with one of its two majority-Black U.S. House districts.
Consultant: Mississippi has a law requiring student performance expectations to be raised once 75% reach proficiency or 65% of schools earn a “B” or higher.
Two Hinds County detainees at the private Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility said they were attacked with knives. It was the second time for one of them.
New Jackson State President Denise Jones Gregory will receive leadership training as she works to bring stability to the historically Black university.