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As people packed into the pews of the church, various speakers stepped up to the podium to celebrate the life of Nolan Wells and continue to call for transparency and justice as the investigation into his death conducted by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department continues.
Tindell said he is “uniquely qualified” to serve as attorney general because of his legislative, judicial and agency experience. He specifically pointed to his initiative to reduce the time the public waits at driver’s license bureaus and his efforts to reduce the autopsy backlog at the Mississippi Forensics Laboratory.
5th Squad will use a $200,000 grant from Lowe’s to purchase and renovate a new space in Pearl to extend its reach to thousands more veterans and their families across Mississippi.
Auditor White reports $10.9 million in misspent funds in past fiscal year while $1.1 million, including only $18,000 in misspent welfare funds, was recovered.
The PSC said, while it’s glad the city of Holly Springs is no longer in control of its utility department, it disagrees with the choice of receiver made by a chancery judge.
West Jackson residents say water outage has lasted over a month after landlord’s failure to pay bill
JXN Water disconnected Addison Place Apartments in west Jackson after the owner accumulated an estimated $300,000 in water bill debt.
Mississippi lawmakers are expected to debate taxes and regulations around lithium in the 2027 legislative session.
A national divide over holding back students: Some states do it young, others wait until high school
More than two dozen states, including Mississippi, now have laws requiring or allowing schools to retain third grade students who are not reading at grade level.
The Saints played their first exhibition and college football is slightly more than two weeks old. We are on the cusp of football and the AP preseason poll is out. Ole Miss is No. 9. Too high? To low? The Clevelands discuss, plus Rick remembers the only Mississippi team to ever play in the Little […]
Many of those who spoke said the Callais decision doesn’t require Mississippi to redraw its maps, and that doing so would create confusion for voters and impose a financial cost on localities. They also said hard-won progress to increase Black representation in Mississippi since the Jim Crow era would be eradicated.
