The Jackson Police Department arrested a man in connection with the death of Tasia Fortune on Friday morning after the ...

Choctaw Indian Princess for 2025-2026 Lexi Rodriguez cuts the ribbon in the grand opening ceremony of the Choctaw Central campus alongside Tribal Chief Cyrus Ben, Tribal Council members, national ...

The Rotary Club of Pascagoula is seeking volunteers for a Sept. 19 build that will provide 50 beds for children in Jackson ...

In a 2016 Pew Research Center survey, 76% of Americans named 9/11 as one of the 10 most consequential events of their ...

Cassandra Wilson, originally from Jackson, Miss., died peacefully at home Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. Here, she performs at the JVC Jazz Festival in Newport, R.I., on Aug. 10, 2003. AP Photo/Stew Milne, ...

Krystal Polk, seen here at the Southaven, Miss., home she grew up in on Jan. 11, 2026, says the non-stop noise pollution from the turbines powering one of Elon Musk’s data centers has left her ...

ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a husband and father of four from Sturgis, Mississippi, at a citizenship hearing in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 15, 2025. Earlier this year, he thought he was on the ...

Mississippi House Democratic Minority Leader Rep. Robert Johnson of Natchez (left) is seen with Mississippi Democratic Senate Minority Leader Sen. Derrick Simmons of Greenville (center) on Jan. 18, ...

The tombstone of James Chaney, a fallen 21-year-old civil-rights hero from Meridian, Miss., has survived many attacks and efforts to deface it. Likewise, the life of the man it memorializes lives on ...

Former Noxubee County Schools Superintendent John L. Barrett helped open Central Academy in 1968 in Macon, Miss., as an openly racist segregation school that tried for years to benefit from public tax ...