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Coach Bill Courtney is a native Tennessean and an Ole Miss graduate. A successful business owner, in 2003, Bill began volunteering at...

A bomb threat prompted cancellation of Sunday morning programs at Mississippi’s largest Jewish synagogue, Beth Israel Congregation in Jacks...

Dec. 17, 1938L.C. Dorsey worked for Head Start in 1964 and later Operation Help before meeting Fannie Lou Hamer, who inspired Dors...

Even his detractors would recognize James Robertson, who died earlier this month, as one of the brightest individuals to have served on the...

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Dec. 16, 1976Andy Young with Martin Luther King Jr. on a people to people speaking tour in 1966. Credit: Bob Fitch Photography Arc...

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With the addition of Oklahoma and Texas, the Southeastern Conference has gifted some really tough schedules to the teams for next seaso...

The end of year holidays from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day have been particularly hard since my parents divorced. As the years passe...

Gov. Tate Reeves has appointed Bill Cork as the new executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, the state’s economic devel...

Nearly seven months after an Indianola police officer shot an 11-year-old boy in the chest during a domestic call, the boy’s mother has fin...

We have known for more than two years that powerhouse football programs Texas and Oklahoma would join the Southeastern Conference. We’ve kn...

A plan championed by Gov. Tate Reeves to draw down more money for the state’s hospitals has been partially approved by the federal governme...

Lauren Jones, co-founder and executive director of Mom.ME., talks about mental health services in Mississippi, and she shares her per...

The Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board is considering revoking the charter of a Canton school that opened its doors in August due...

While I understand that this is definitely Trump Country, Donald Trump’s legal jeopardy is causing some very real risks when riding the...

We’re nearing Christmas and Ole Miss basketball is undefeated. Nevertheless, Mississippi State, with freshman sensation Josh Hubbard, is ra...

Dec. 13, 1903Ella Baker protests the all-white Mississippi delegation outside the Democratic National Convention in 1964. Credit:...

Viometrice Simmons remembers when she first fell in love with nursing. She was about 5 years old, sitting on the porch of her childhood ho...

After hearing from about 50 frustrated voters for more than an hour on Tuesday morning, the Hinds County Election Commission agreed to meet...

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Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield, Mississippi Center of Investigative Reporting at Mississippi Today fellows, answered your questions on...

Michael Jenkins holds his neck as he attempts to answer questions from his attorney during a press conference near the University of Missis...

Six detention officers, the sheriff and Rankin County are named in a wrongful death lawsuit alleging they failed to intervene even after kn...

Mississippi officials are calling attention to the growing amount of foreign-owned farmland in the state, although it makes up less than th...