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Johnny Parker is being inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. With work in college football and the NFL, he is quite likely the most influential strength and conditioning coach in American sports history.

Retired professor’s “modest proposal” is for Gov. Tate Reeves to proclaim “Jim Crow Heritage Month” as a companion to Confederate Heritage Month.

Senate Judiciary A Chairman Brice Wiggins has worked for years to reform Mississippi’s notoriously opaque youth courts. He sat down with Mississippi Today to discuss why the courts are now somewhat open to the public, what happened during the the recent special legislative session and why having a uniform youth court system is crucial to […]

After reports and allegations of lack of health care for inmates in Mississippi, lawmakers passed a law calling for a review of the prison system’s medical services contract.

Of all 23 indigent defense plans submitted to the Mississippi Supreme Court, eight districts, covering 28 counties, have clear, comprehensive plans with specific deadlines and procedures. Many of the remaining plans omit deadlines and other key details.

Wilson has served as a circuit court judge in northwestern Mississippi since February 2017.

A music teacher’s chance encounter with rugby in Paris developed into a curiosity that would help revive one of Mississippi’s oldest rugby clubs. 

Marshall Ramsey’s editorial cartoon shows teachers facing an alligator, flames, sharks and hoops that represent bureaucratic challenges in spending classroom supply money.

Comparisons have been made to how Mississippi politicians have spent tobacco lawsuit settlement money and how they are now spending opioid lawsuit settlement funds.

After the deaths of Reps. William “Bo” Brown and Price Wallace last month, fellow legislators plan to continue the causes each man championed, including criminal justice reform and restoring the Mississippi ballot initiative process.