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Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee say one ICE officer has been referred for discipline over a use of force incident since the Trump administration began
Mississippi coach Pete Golding says he has no ill will toward his old boss, Lane Kiffin. At his first SEC Media Days as the head coach, Golding said he remains friends with Kiffin and even bought his old house.
The organization awarded Mississippi Today and The New York Times first place for Public Service in Written Journalism for the Abuse of Power: Beyond the Goon Squad series.
While the Legislature passed a bill providing grants to home resiliency, the appropriated $15 million for the program was put in another measure that died.
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the donation of the Greenwood Leflore Hospital to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the last hurdle to completing the transfer.
Tropical Storm Bertha made landfall Wednesday in Louisiana, spinning off strong winds far from its center and closing beaches from Florida to Mississippi. Forecasters say the main threats were damaging winds and coastal storm surge.
Independent pathologist Dr. Roger Mitchell Jr. wrote that Nolan Xavier Wells’ cause and manner of death are undetermined, citing multiple challenges when he examined the body.
The Tougaloo College president, Corey Wiggins, says the key to meeting school’s mission is learning from its history when the college was hub of leadership training and civil rights activism.
While no single strategy will be a silver bullet, there’s been renewed focus on several fronts: state Voting Rights Acts to preserve protections on a more local level, youth-led movements to ramp up public pressure, and grassroots organizing to help voters navigate an increasingly fraught election system.
Stuart Stevens for decades was one of the top Republican political strategists and he ran campaigns for dozens of congressional, senatorial, gubernatorial and presidential campaigns. But the Mississippi native left the party over President Trump and says, “There is no Republican party … it has turned into the pro-tariffs party.” Stevens says the GOP these […]
