Ohio resident Michelle Edwards and Illinois resident Edward Porter each face a federal charge of transmitting threatening communication to kill or injure in connection with Nolan Wells' death ...
Despite having the highest percentage Black population of any state, at about 38%, Mississippi has historically had few Black elected officials, due largely to past gerrymandering and Jim Crow voting ...
The street sign in the 500 block of Road of Remembrance is pictured in Jackson on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. According to authorities, a woman’s body was found hanging from a tree in the backyard of a ...
Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit ...
Department records and interviews with a former FBI agent show that the Rankin County Sheriff's Department had evidence of deputies' violent acts long before the abuses of the "Goon Squad" came to ...
Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. At the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, the 34 men on ...
Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. A man who was brutalized by Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies ...
Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. State authorizers may force SR1 College Preparatory and STEM ...
Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. Only a fraction of Mississippi inmates diagnosed with hepatitis ...
Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. In December of 2025 Kristen Windham, director of policy for Gov.
Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. Multiple people have received letters giving notice of an ...