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A golf cart bought by former Hinds DA Jody Owens could be part of a state audit looking into the finances of the district attorney’s office. The vehicle now sits in a corner of a courthouse parking lot after Owens resigned his post over the summer.

A Republican-dominated committee listened to speakers who shared their views on whether Mississippi should redraw its electoral maps, a move that could reshape the state’s political representation for years to come. 

A North Mississippi farm worker died of extreme heat exposure in early September amid one of the hottest summers in recent state history.

Unemployment was down in the Gulfport-Biloxi, Hattiesburg and Jackson Metro areas month over month and year over year at 3%, 2.9% and 3% respectively, accompanied by decreases in the civilian labor force in all three areas.

President Donald Trump has nominated Todd Butler, a labor and employment lawyer with Phelps Dunbar, to replace Judge Leslie Southwick on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Mississippi Supreme Court allowed a death row inmate to go to the Rankin County Circuit Court to seek post-conviction relief based on the changing science of shaken baby syndrome.

Pearl River County is installing license plate readers at four locations along Interstate 59 and on other highways, with the possibility of adding more units over residents’ concerns about privacy and data retention.

Mississippi is one of 30 states that have opened in to the Federal Scholarships Tax Credit, the first national school choice scholarship program.

The Ezell campaign filed a complaint with the FEC against Boyanton and accused him of making a false complaint about Republican Ezell.