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As the state’s hospital crisis continues, Gov. Tate Reeves has held meetings on health care, but his office refuses to say what they’re abo...

More than a year after President Joe Biden nominated Scott Colom to fill a vacant federal judicial seat in north Mississippi, the prosecuto...

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The state and attorneys representing two men on death row are in conflict about whether legal options still exist for them to challenge the...

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The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 6, 2024, in a case challenging the constitutionality of providing public fun...

Stewpot Community Services was started over 40 years ago by people like you and me who saw a growing need in Jackson and decided to work to...

Dec. 4, 1967Photograph of Ralph Abernathy, left, and Coretta Scott King, right inside a tent set up as part of the Poor People’s C...

Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance discuss the recent election losses for Mississippi Democrats with Rep. Robert Johns...

ISSAQUENA COUNTY — The kings and queens of the South Delta School District tossed candy and waved at their families as the mid-October para...

”During a brief phone interview Sunday, Bailey repeatedly declined to comment. Told that several high-ranking deputies were involved in...

Dec. 3, 1841Frederick Douglass circa 1879 Credit: WikipediaFrederick Douglass founded and edited his first antislavery newspap...

Despite election problems in Democratic-voter rich Hinds County, Brandon Presley did not delay his concession speech to incumbent Republica...

Ole Miss guard Jaylen Murray moves the ball down-court during the game between the NC State Wolfpack and the Ole Miss Rebels at SJB Pavilio...

Dec. 2, 1986In 1986, Mike Espy became the first Black congressman from Mississippi since Reconstruction. Seven years later, he bec...

Mississippi Today, in partnership with The Atlantic, convened local leaders, policymakers and journalists in downtown Jackson on Thursday t...

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The superintendent of the newly renamed women’s prison at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility was removed from her position this...

Weeks after the state asked to set an execution date for Willie Jerome Manning, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Thursday that it will n...

In his first press conference as Jackson State University’s 13th president, Marcus Thompson pledged to improve “customer care,” accountabil...

State Health Department officials decided to split $4 million in state funds to two Mississippi health care systems vying to open burn cent...

When Janice Scaggs joined the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2020, she became part of a growing effort by the state’s largest...

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Nov. 30, 1912David Finn took a series of photographs of artists and intellectuals living in New York City for the book “Our New Yo...

Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield investigated dozens of arrests made by Rankin County deputies to report this article, which is part of a se...