The federal government is restoring $137 million in education funds to Mississippi schools.The U.S. Department of Education notified sta...

Mississippi Today Editor-in-Chief Adam Ganucheau won the J. Oliver Emmerich Award for Editorial Excellence, and several of the newsroom’s jo...

John McKay, chairman and CEO of the Mississippi Manufacturers Association, talks with Mississippi Today’s Geoff Pender and Bobby Harrison ab...

Mississippians next week will start paying higher taxes at the gas pump but lower taxes at the grocery store.A new state law that raises...

The superintendents for Leake County and Hollandale school districts and a consultant have been indicted on four federal counts of conspirac...

Editor’s note: This essay is being published on the 10-year anniversary of the week that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled there is a constitutio...

James Meredith, who became the first Black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962, inspects a painting of himself during...

Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976

Jordan had kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest serving and oldest death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the Mississippi Sta...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, received a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary after being on death row since 1976

Kerlin Moreno-Orellana is facing deportation over a misdemeanor charge that usually results in a fine. He was picked up by Immigration and C...

Deep South Today is pleased to announce that it has received a $300,000 grant from theWalton Family Foundation (WFF) to expand education rep...

MIAMI: A man sentenced to death for murder in the state of Florida was executed late Tuesday, one of two executions in the United States thi...

Editor’s note: This essay is part of Mississippi Today Ideas, a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share fact-based ideas about our s...