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Johnnie E. Walls Jr., former circuit judge, longtime state senator and chairman of the state Democratic Party, died on Saturday, according t...

MAY 13, 1862During the Civil War, Robert Smalls and other Black Americans who were enslaved commandeered an armed Confederate ship i...

This story is part of “Uninsured in America,” a project led by Public Health Watch that focuses on life in America’s health coverage gap and...

Pettus shares a few war stories with Bobby Harrison and Geoff Pender, including her dealings with the irascible former Gov. Kirk Fordice. ...

The Mississippi Constitution gives the governor the sole authority to call a special session and to set the agenda.It is one of the few...

MAY 10, 2007Left to right, John Lewis, Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Andrew Young attended the 1965 funeral of Jimmie Lee...

This story was originally published by Floodlight.Renewable energy in the United States has surged to unprecedented levels, with the com...

A panel of three federal judges has approved a revised legislative redistricting plan from the Mississippi Election Commission, which will a...

Mississippi moms will no longer be able to use Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi insurance to cover lactation services after they leave...

MAY 9, 1928First NFL game with an all-Black officiating crew on Nov. 23, 2020. Burl Toler, pictured far right, was remembered. Credit: N...

The Tennessee Valley Authority, a federally created utility that sells wholesale power to local providers in the south including Mississippi...

Editor’s note: Robyn Tannehill is the second-term mayor of Oxford and is unopposed for a third term. This piece is part of an ongoing Missis...

Bobby Halford has surpassed Ron Polk as Mississippi’s all-time winningest college baseball coach.April, 1985: Ronald Reagan was presiden...

The March family at the center of “Little Women, The Broadway Musical” at New Stage Theatre includes (clockwise from left) Michaela Lin as M...

Marshall Ramsey: Renegotiation Mississippi Today.

Tracy Harden, owner of Chuck’s Dairy Bar, wipes away tears outside her U.S 61 restaurant in Rolling Fork, Monday, March 24, 2025. March 24th...

George Foreman, surely one of the world’s most intriguing and transformative sports figures of the 20th century, died over the weekend at th...

House Speaker Jason White acknowledged for the first time on Monday that House leaders knowingly passed a typo-riddled plan to overhaul Miss...

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

Five days after an Atmos Energy crew accidentally released high-pressure gas in northeast Mississippi, the company is nearly done restoring...

by Joshua WilsonA reader from Forrest County recently asked the Roy Howard Community Journalism Center’s “What Is True?” fact-checking s...

The grin on best-selling author Angie Thomas’s face could not have been bigger. The Zoom call, surprising Owen Jarvis with news he had won t...

The week of March 17 in the Mississippi Legislature dawned with a continuing tax standoff between the state House and Senate as they entered...

Portia Scott interjected when her friend didn’t want to talk about Jackson’s upcoming mayoral election as they waited for the annual Hal’s S...