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Nov. 11, 1991Credit: WikipediaEndesha Ida Mae Holland debuted her play, “From the Mississippi Delta,” at the Circle in the Squ...

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State revenue collections are continuing to slow as legislative leaders and Gov. Tate Reeves, fresh off their election victories, prepare t...

The second in command of the Mississippi Department of Corrections may be without a job after his biography disappeared from the agency’s w...

Attorney General Lynn Fitch is asking the Supreme Court to set execution dates for two men on death row. The Thursday motions are for 5...

Another 8,674 Mississippians lost their Medicaid coverage in the agency’s latest round of disenrollments in October. Since unwinding di...

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Trey Benson (left) and Dillon Johnson played in the same backfield for Greenville St. Joseph before becoming stars on two of the best teams...

Nov. 10, 1898Men gather outside the remains of The Daily Record after the Wilmington massacre. Credit: Library of CongressEdit...

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Democrat Brandon Presley’s first statewide campaign might not be his last.Fresh off his Tuesday loss by less than 5% to incumbent Repub...

Two days after Mississippi Today reported an inmate’s claim he was not receiving proper medical care at South Mississippi Correctional Inst...

Nov. 9, 1968This statue of James Brown can be found in his hometown of Augusta, Georgia. Credit: Georgia Tourism and TravelSin...

The Justice Department is now investigating the city of Lexington and the Lexington Police Department.“No city, no town and no law enfo...

A pattern has developed for statewide Democratic candidates in Mississippi: They hit a ceiling of about 47% of the vote, no matter how hard...

Jason Coker, president of Together for Hope, discusses race and health during the Better Health Summit event at Duling Hall in Jackso...

Tenth ranked Ole Miss plays at top-ranked Georgia Saturday in the biggest game involving a Mississippi football team in years. The Clevelan...

Nov. 8, 1955NAACP leader Gus Courts lying in hospital in Mound Bayou in critical condition after being shot, November 26, 1955. Cr...

Republican Gov. Tate Reeves was reelected Tuesday, defeating Democratic challenger Brandon Presley in a tight race that political experts a...

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. But in the statewide races, it (except for one race) wasn’t even close. The post Ma...