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Mississippi has earned national acclaim for boosting reading proficiency among fourth graders. Now, state lawmakers are focusing similar efforts on older students.

Democrat Scott Colom must work in midterm election campaign for U.S. Senate on getting new voters to polls without scaring away moderates.

Mississippi researchers will help lead a $13.5 million nationwide project to expand U.S. seafood production through aquaculture research and development.

Demonstrators are calling for accountability in the police shooting death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in the north Mississippi town of Senatobia.

Nearly 100 people gathered Friday at the Walmart in Senatobia where a police officer fatally shot a 1-year-old. They marched, demanding justice and transparency.

The Gulf Coast is home to half the state’s 9,000 Vietnamese individuals, who represent one of the largest Asian diasporas in Mississippi. Despite the size of the community, local healthcare workers say there are only a handful of Vietnamese-speaking medical providers in the area, creating challenges for those with limited English proficiency.

Greenville school district officials plan to close a school that is plagued with mold and leaks. Although leaders of the financially troubled district say the closure of Coleman Middle School is temporary, they are not saying how long repairs might take.

What Mississippi needs is a state-level public defender mandate establishing clear, enforceable standards that apply in every jurisdiction: standards for compensation and expenses, for workload, for when counsel first meets a client, for continuity of representation through all stages of a case.

The NCAA adopted a new eligibility model for Division I athletes allowing five seasons of competition over a five-year period beginning upon initial college enrollment or the academic year following their 19th birthday, whichever occurs first.

Saturday and until at least next Thursday, parts of Mississippi could see a heat index between 105 and 110 degrees, creating conditions that could cause heat-related illnesses.