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A special election will be held for the Hinds County District 2 supervisor’s seat after a judge found errors in safekeeping of ballots in the 2023 Democratic primary.

Baptist Memorial Health Care will take over the lease and operations of Merit Health Rankin this year, making it the third Merit Health facility in Mississippi to change hands in the past two years, officials said Tuesday.

James Meredith, who no longer gives interviews, recently told Mississippi Today through his wife that he agrees with his granddaughter, Janae Knight, who said integrating the University of Mississippi – which she now attends – was “necessary to wage his war against segregation.”

Mississippi State and Ole Miss will both face familiar rivals in NCAA Baseball Super Regionals; this weekend. State plays at Georgia. Ole Miss plays at Auburn. The two winners advance to the College World Series. The Clevelands also discuss what happened to Southern Miss, which is what happened to so many national seeds in NCAA Regionals last week. Today’s show also touches on the NBA championship series,, the College Softball World Series, the legacy of Vic Purvis, and Pearl River Community College’s national championships in both baseball and softball.

A major legal win for Black Mississippians that was supposed to lead to new elections for the state Supreme Court was wiped away.

Mississippi State and Ole Miss are competing in separate super regionals for college baseball.

Fiscal management problems may cost SR1 College Preparatory and STEM Academy its charter. Some parents of students who attend the Canton charter school questioned what’s going on and why.

Events at the Jackson Zoo drew families from across the metro area – from Pocahontas to Pearl – including many who said they couldn’t remember the last time they’d visited. About 175 people went to the zoo last weekend.

Former Mississippi student: A phenomenon that ends in fourth-grade classrooms isn’t a Mississippi Miracle. It is a head start that we keep failing to build on.

National NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson talks with Mississippi Today about GOP redistricting in Mississippi and across the South, and on his organization’s call for a boycott of major college athletic programs in states pushing to weaken Black voting power through gerrymandering.