Mississippi Today

The nonprofit charged with administering federal family planning money in Mississippi is laying off half of its staff two months after the f...

As always, college baseball becomes front page news as the calendar turns to June in the Magnolia State.Ole Miss and Southern Miss baseb...

Sometime within the last decade or so, setting the Mississippi state budget became a top-secret affair, closely guarded even against many of...

State Rep. Omeria Scott of Laurel helps unpack the tumultuous two-day special session of the Mississippi Legislature last week and the $7.1...

JUNE 1, 1964Ruby Hurley, youth secretary of NAACP, between 1943 and 1950. Credit: NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Lib...

Note: Special screenings of “Sinners” were held in Clarksdale this week after residents decried the lack of a movie theater. You can read mo...

One day after concluding a raucous special session to pass a state budget, Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann and House Speaker Jason White told repo...

Lexington community members joined attorneys and the National Police Accountability Project to urge a federal appeals court to consider evid...

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

CLARKSDALE — Hundreds of people packed inside a local auditorium Thursday to see the hit film ” Sinners,” set in their community and steeped...

On the edge of the Briarwood community in northeast Jackson sits a white building with a blue awning. On any given night, its rooms are fill...

Lawmakers on Thursday finally passed a $7.1 billion state budget to fund government agencies, but it wasn’t a master class in legislative st...

This is a developing story and will be updated.Senate leaders on Thursday realized improper spending of $1.9 million in the Health Depar...

Jasmine Barnes has been following the headlines about dysfunction in Jackson’s City Hall since college, taking notes on government meeting m...

U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate will invite feedback from capital city residents on the latest rate hike JXN Water is proposing, the utili...

MAY 29, 1980Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP, looks at the New York Post, May 29, 1980, with a front page story on the sh...

Angered at being shut out of the process and kept in the dark on particulars of a $7-billion state budget, House Democrats filibustered on W...

Advocates who oppose the death penalty and are organizing to halt further executions in the state stood outside the Mississippi Supreme Cour...

One of Mississippi’s longest-serving current state senators, who published a memoir about how education helped him move from picking cotton...

Three weeks after a medical biller announced it would no longer be working with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi, moms in the state fac...

The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday it is investigating Democrat Sonya Williams Barnes’ campaign for Gulfport mayor aft...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — After beating Arizona twice in the Tucson regional and Arkansas twice in the Fayetteville super regional, Ole Miss soft...

The American Civil Liberties Union launched a campaign this month to seek accountability from law enforcement departments undergoing federal...