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No. 7 Alabama raced past No. 16 Mississippi State 56-23 to remain undefeated. The Tide unceremoniously knocked the Bulldogs from the list of unbeaten teams.
Blues great Buddy Guy was celebrated Thursday night with a sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Fellow legend Bobby Rush said he would have walked from Mississippi to be part of the celebration.
The Mississippi Division of Medicaid asked lawmakers for a roughly $179 million increase in state spending for the coming fiscal year after receiving a steep increase last year that squeezed other parts of the state’s budget.
Oxford store clerk Yahya Mohamed Mosleh, 51, and his 18-year-old son Islam Yahya Mosleh face federal charges for selling kratom tied to two Ole Miss students’ deaths.
Mississippi’s brain drain may be curbed by assigning new hires a project, with AI handling some routine preparation while an experienced employee coaches the judgment around it, CEO writes.
Hinds County is working toward getting unclaimed bodies out of the space it has leased from Hinds Community College since 2020.
Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040 because of federal policy changes since President Donald Trump returned to office. That’s according to modeling released Friday by a nonpartisan think tank. In five states, households will pay roughly $9,000 more: Oregon, Mississippi, South Dakota, Virginia and Wyoming.
The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation awarded $25,000 to the “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” project to support research and the production of 12 new tour stops and multimedia resources.
Months after January’s deadly winter storm, officials recognize solutions to better handle future events. but elected leaders say there’s little room for improvement in Mississippi’s winter storm response.
