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Annette Pridgen practices a yoga pose using a chair for support during a demonstration class at Tara Yoga Movement and Wellness Clinic in Fl...

Marshall Ramsey: Yokes On Us Mississippi Today.

A new congressional bill aims to improve fisheries and environmental quality in the Mississippi River basin with a federally funded commissi...

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Weeks after the escape of two men from separate Mississippi prisons, the search continues for a 71-year-old man convicted of capital murder...

Mississippi forward Jaemyn Brakefield (4) and fans celebrate a win over Tennessee following an NCAA college basketball game in Oxford, Miss....

The Mississippi Legislature on Thursday honored longtime, award-winning journalist Emily Wagster Pettus for her decades of legislative news...

Gwen Dilworth is a Community Health reporter at Mississippi Today. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi TodayMississippi Today health repor...

March 6, 1857Dred Scott sought to buy freedom for him and his family. Credit: WikipediaIn Dred Scott v. Sandford, the U.S. Supreme...

A bill to license and regulate professional midwifery died on the calendar without a vote after Public Health Chair Hob Bryan, D-Amory, did...

Voters from 15 Mississippi legislative districts will decide special elections this November, if a federal court approves two redistricting...

Judges for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals raised questions this week about the high court’s qualified-immunity doctrine, which critic...

Germantown, Ridgeland, Canton and Raymond all won State Championships, showing how the power has shifted in Mississippi high school hoops. P...

Marshall Ramsey: Long Odds Mississippi Today.

BILOXI — Soft sand, cool water … and high levels of bacteria? Mississippi’s beaches are popular spots for spring break visitors, and they’re...

The worst-kept secret about Mississippi’s elections is that any voter can vote by absentee each cycle if they are willing to lie. Prosec...

The former head of the office for discipline of attorneys in Wisconsin has filed a complaint with the Mississippi Supreme Court stating reti...

The House on Tuesday night killed Senate legislation that aimed to shore up the state’s underfunded public employee retirement system by of...

March 5, 1770Speculative portrait of Crispus Attucks Credit: WikipediaCrispus Attucks, who had escaped slavery, became the first of...

A panel of House lawmakers kept alive the effort to legalize mobile sports betting in Mississippi, but the bill does not appear to have enou...

A bill to help poor women access prenatal care passed a committee deadline at the eleventh hour after a committee chairman said he wouldn’t...

After weeks of often contentious back-and-forth with child care providers, the Mississippi Department of Health is walking back its revised...

This story will be updated.Legislation that would make it easier for K-12 students to transfer to other public schools outside their hom...

Marshall Ramsey: The Trailblazer Mississippi Today.