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Attorney General Lynn Fitch has to be considered the most serious and formidable female candidate for governor in Mississippi since 1979, when Evelyn Gandy lost the Democratic primary to William Winter.

The U.S. Senate has adopted a resolution recognizing Missouri as one of the teams with a claim to being No. 1 in college football in 1960.

The Woodward Hines Education Foundation and public donations will help ensure scholarships are funded for about 170 students who have been in foster care. State lawmakers would need to find a longterm funding fix.

Through the nonprofit advocacy organization Human Remains, Mississippi’s death row prisoners have an online platform to share their stories, academic achievements and writings.

Tennessee primaries tested a new U.S. House map redrawn by Republican state lawmakers. Republicans are aiming for a clean sweep of the state’s congressional seats in November.

KLLM, partially owned by possible gubernatorial candidate Tommy Duff, has been accused of discrimination against women by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Jackson police provided no details that might explain how the 29-year-old Black woman, Tasia Fortune, ended up hanging from a tree.

The first-degree attempted murder trial for Lane Mitchell, accused of stabbing a restaurant customer in the neck, is scheduled for March 22 in Union County.

The Mississippi Marketplace: The state’s data centers boom is no longer just a business story. It has also crept into politics and education.

Social worker: “Moms’ Equal Pay Day” highlights the “impossible choices” for many mothers of paying the rent, or keeping the lights on, or covering childcare, or buying groceries, or making many other choices.