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Democratic state Rep. Willie Bailey of Greenville says Republican lawmakers have already decided what to do about redrawing political districts and they will not listen to the public.
Senatobia Police Chief Harold Vanderford submitted his resignation letter to city leaders days after Mississippi Today, Verite News and The New York Times revealed that he had frequently used racist slurs in text messages. Aldermen fired him instead.
As a teenager, Jackson’s Hezekiah Watkins became the youngest of the Freedom Riders, an interracial group of activists who challenged racial segregation on interstate buses and bus facilities in the South.
California resident Joseph Alfredo Vasquez Dumarce and Illinois resident Edward James Porter are set to stand trial this fall in in federal court in Gulfport for allegedly threatening to kill or hurt witnesses in the Nolan Wells death investigation.
Central District Public Service Commissioner De’Keither Stamps said he’ll continue efforts to seek use of SNAP benefits to pay for water bills.
The large fire, causing the evacuation of Laurel’s Howard Industries Monday, began at a paint booth and spread, causing multiple fires at once.
It’s a free-for-all in big-time college athletics. No rules, no scruples, no nothing. And, yes, LSU coach Lane Kiffin is the poster child for all the madness.
Temperatures that have hit triple digits are exacerbating conditions in the un-air conditioned housing units of the steel-and-concrete South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville.
Department of Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell has been overseeing the state Highway Patrol, Bureaus of investigations and narcotics, Capitol Police, drivers services, forensic lab and medical examiners, and many other law-enforcement divisions. Before that he was a state Court of Appeals Judge, state senator and a prosecutor on the Coast. He said his experience […]
The state is asking for a new judge, in part, because U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate’s staff last year used artificial intelligence to write a flawed order in the case, which drew national scrutiny, including from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
