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In its first month of operation, the new Uber program that takes Mississippians to county health department appointments received 58 transp...

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Dec. 21, 1911A colorized photograph of Josh Gibson, who was playing with the Homestead Grays Credit: WikipediaJosh Gibson, the...

Mississippi Rep. Kevin Felsher is one of five state lawmakers nationwide to win a Mental Health America award for championing policies to r...

The board of the Jackson Public School District approved a plan Tuesday night to close 13 school buildings, with one board member dissentin...

The Mississippi State Board of Education has named Mississippi native Lance Evans as the next state superintendent.Evans, the current s...

The board overseeing Mississippi public universities failed to pass a series of policy changes in November that would have increased its ov...

A federal judge will decide whether to approve another injunction to prevent state appointments to a new, separate court system in Jackson...

Melvin Jones, a 64-year-old native of Cleveland, was in his 30s when he was diagnosed with diabetes. He knew he was at an increased risk b...

The high school football season is in the history books, which means it’s time for the best, biggest and fastest to decide where they are g...

Dec. 20, 1958Bruce Boynton played a key role in the U.S. Supreme Court case that led to the Freedom Riders protests of 1961. Credi...

For the first time in a court filing, a key defendant in the Mississippi welfare scandal is alleging that former Gov. Phil Bryant was behin...

At Jackson State Deion Sanders smiles as he holds the Orange Blossom Classic trophy after winning an NCAA college football game over Florid...

Mississippi welfare officials for years directed federal funds intended to serve the state’s poorest residents to suspicious causes such as...

Only three times since the federal government began tracking the labor force participation rate in the mid-1970s have a lower percentage of...

Dec. 19, 1924Cicely Tyson Credit: WikipediaThree-time Emmy winner Cicely Tyson was born in Harlem, New York. She became the fi...

Neither Rome nor a fully functioning water system in Jackson can be built in a day, but there were plenty of developments from the past yea...

The Mississippi Division of Medicaid dropped 7,448 people from its coverage in November.The latest numbers cap six months of disenrollm...

Hinds County election commissioners acknowledged in a public meeting on Monday that they sent the wrong document to the company that printe...

GREENVILLE – A federal jury has convicted a former Amory High School teacher of sexually exploiting at least seven students over 10 years,...

Young people are learning about driver safety from a Jackson State University team hoping to keep them from becoming the next car crash sta...

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Legislation has been introduced that would allow Mississippians who have been permanently disenfranchised because of a felony conviction to...

Dec. 18, 1917Ossie DavisActor, playwright and civil rights activist Ossie Davis was born in Cogdell, Georgia. He saw racis...

Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance provide a primer of what to expect during the opening days of the pomp and circumst...