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Several DeSoto County residents, including former Republican gubernatorial candidate and current county Supervisor Robert Foster, filed a lawsuit July 2 seeking to break up a majority-Black judicial subdistrict.
The Hinds County Sheriff’s Office withheld jail death records from a legal advocacy organization for nearly a year. Then a local judge ordered the sheriff to turn the records over by July 9. But nearly two weeks later, the Southern Poverty Law Center is still waiting. The missed deadline is the latest instance of the […]
A former University of Mississippi employee is arguing in a federal appeal that if a ruling dismissing her lawsuit against Chancellor Glenn Boyce stands, it would set a “dangerous precedent” for free speech.
Defaults on student loans have surged across the United States, reaching record levels as borrowers struggle to keep up with payments. Mississippi has the highest default rate in the nation.
Marshall Ramsey’s editorial cartoon shows Mississippi House Speaker Jason White and Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann saying “PBM reform is hopelessly stopped up,” referring to pharmacy benefit managers. An independent pharmacist hands the politicians a giant suppository.
Sarah Whites-Koditschek is joining Mississippi Today and the Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center as part of The New York Times Local Investigations Fellowship.
Mississippi’s working poor have been hit with rising health insurance exchange costs and no Medicaid expansion, meaning they have less access to healthcare than most Americans.
An internal complaint at the Senatobia Police Department says Sgt. Hunter Foster made a racially offensive remark in front of other employees to refer to a Black colleague.
Restoring water flow to the East Pearl River would provide environmental, recreational and economic benefits for communities.
A Mississippi police officer involved in last month’s fatal shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart was previously accused of exaggerating the risks that a vehicle posed to officers during another parking lot confrontation that escalated into violence in 2019, records show.
