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Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson has been convicted of four misdemeanors in Lexington, Mississippi. The post Civil rights attor...

Mississippi lawmakers, who for years have restricted abortion access, recently voted to provide millions of dollars in tax breaks and cash...

The Mississippi Senate this week unanimously passed a bill to regulate how insurance companies decide which medical procedures or prescript...

The state House on Thursday approved legislation to legalize mobile sports betting, putting Mississippi on track to join a growing number o...

MUW, seeking to rebrand itself, faces bigger issues than its name -- declining enrollment, a deficit and liberal arts education no longer i...

Gov. Tate Reeves renewed his call to eliminate the personal income tax, a major source of state revenue, in the first budget proposal of hi...

Twelve Senate Democrats did not for a resolution Thursday honoring U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith as being the first woman elected to represent...

What is a foot?Underneath the skin, tendons such as the Achilles and muscles such as the tibialis posterior run from the lower leg towa...

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Gov. Tate Reeves’ Medicaid payment changes, pitched during the eleventh-hour of a heated reelection campaign and his only major health plan...

Caroline Criado-Perez, a feminist author and public speaker living in London, read from her latest book, “Invisible Women,” last week at Le...

House Bill 539, introducing presumptive eligibility for pregnant women, passed the full House 117-5 on Wednesday and now advances to the Se...

Starting next year, the number of high school graduates will start to fall in Mississippi. That’s the looming reality a joint hearing of th...

A proposal to manage hospitals and clinics in the Delta under a new authority — and give political power over it to the governor — was met...

Ferlando Esco hasn’t been home in nearly 20 years. The former Canton resident is serving a life sentence in Mississippi’s prisons not b...

The Clevelands recap the NFL conference championship games and look ahead to the Super Bowl, plus some college basketball thoughts. Father...

Online sports betting would become legal in Mississippi under a proposal that advanced Tuesday evening in a state House committee meeting. ...

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The Republican National Committee and Mississippi Republican Party sued state officials in federal court to prevent election workers from c...

I do not know about you but starting a new year, setting new goals, and staying focused can be stressful. If you are like me, the holidays...

On this day in 1863, the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment — the Civil War’s first combat unit made up of Black soldiers that...

Mississippi’s appeals court reversed the manslaughter conviction of a former Jackson police officer who pulled a man from his car and slamm...

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James Tatsch was not charged with any crime. But when he was found unresponsive in an isolation cell at the Alcorn County Jail on Jan. 17,...

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