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Jackson is one of four cities the U.S. Department of Justice chose for its $300 million Model Cities Initiative. Mississippi's capital city will receive $64 million over the next three years.
Mississippi will receive nearly $205 million for the second year of a national program that aims to improve rural healthcare, federal officials announced Monday.
The results in Mississippi’s most populous county and a Democratic stronghold could cement the outcome of the Magnolia State nail-biter between Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democratic challenger Scott Colom.
Mississippi's oldest, private historically Black college is celebrating its 160th year. On Friday, the Rust community inaugurated Johnny Moore as the college’s 13th president.
White joins a growing Republican primary field to replace term-limited incumbent Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves.
Win or lose, Mississippi voters sent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and state Republican leaders some messages.
Marshall Ramsey's editorial cartoon depicts Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson feeding voter rolls into a "Purge-O-Matic" machine that spits out affidavit ballots.
A new examination of video footage shows that the officer who shot at a fleeing car in a Walmart parking lot, killing a boy, had previously ramped up encounters by punching, cursing and drawing his weapon.
A New York Times analysis and review by experts found that the police officer who opened fire, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in Senatobia, violated basic policing protocols and his department’s use-of-force policy.
Put simply, if Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith had performed as well as she did in 2020 in that one county – DeSoto – she would not be staring at a potential history-making upset.
A coalition of the nation’s leading civil rights groups warned Republican Secretary of State Michael Watson he needed to reinstate any voters inactivated by his office’s deployment of unverified credit bureau data by Election Day. He never responded.
It’s all the more important to pass the Mississippi Voting Rights Act to enshrine critical voting rights protections for Black voters into state law, advocates argue.
With all but one other U.S. Senate race across America already decided, the nation has fixed its attention on the Magnolia State nail-biter between Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democratic Challenger Scott Colom.
Lawyers for Mississippi’s foster care system and attorneys representing the children who’ve lived inside it will each have 40 minutes to argue early next year if the state’s child welfare system still needs continued federal safety oversight.
Two Mississippi universities and Jackson Public Schools offer grant-funded programs to help students consider college as a viable option after high school.
SpaceXAI could face fines of over $6 million for allegedly violating state water pollution laws at its Southaven data center facilities.
Whitney Lipscomb said her priorities as secretary of state would include cutting red tape for businesses and protecting "every lawful vote" in elections.
The razor-thin margin of votes between Hyde-Smith and Colom in a state considered a Republican stronghold has sent shockwaves across the nation, but it remained too close to call on Thursday.
There are just four races for U.S. Senate and governor that The Associated Press has not yet called, as of Thursday. Contests in Alaska, Kansas and Mississippi have narrow margins with votes still outstanding.
Voters in a DeSoto County subdistrict elected Southaven attorneys John Hughes as circuit court judge and Gwen Baptist as a chancery judge, making them the county's first Black judges.
Election lawyers from across the country have descended on Mississippi as the national Democratic and Republican parties scrutinize the final count of the midterm Senate race between Scott Colom and Cindy Hyde-Smith.
A federal judge Thursday sentenced former Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens to 41 months and former Jackson City Councilmember Aaron Banks to 45 months, nearly two years to the day after federal prosecutors brought bribery charges against the two and Jackson's mayor at the time, Chokwe Antar Lumumba.
Tens of thousands of Mississippians covered by Affordable Care Act marketplace health insurance will face higher premiums and fewer options during this year’s open enrollment period, experts say. This is the second consecutive year of double-digit premium increases nationally. The average benchmark premium will rise…
A Canton school is appealing the Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board's October vote to revoke its charter.
Lawmakers on Wednesday considered steps to further restrict kratom, a debate reignited by the recent deaths of two University of Mississippi students who were found near suspected kratom derivatives.
Five Black governors will serve at the same time for the first time in America’s history. Hours after Black governors-elect on opposite sides of the political spectrum became firsts, two more wins followed, and an incumbent won reelection.
A close contest in Mississippi is among the handful of Senate races that still had not been called by The Associated Press as of midday Wednesday.
All eyes are on Mississippi, to see if Democrat Scott Colom will pull off an historic upset over Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Attorneys for Lane Mitchell argue that another trial for attempted first-degree murder would violate his right from being tried twice for the same crime while the Mississippi Court of Appeals considered the trial court’s ruling a dismissal rather than an acquittal that determined guilt or innocence.
Wednesday’s Joint Legislative Budget Committee meeting was just the latest step in the state budget process.
Litigation is likely in the too-close-to-call Mississippi midterm Senate race between Scott Colom and Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency distributing the grant, say states receiving the federal funding must begin doula reimbursement by the end of 2027.
A Dec. 1 runoff will decide who will lead the Hinds County District Attorney's Office. Darla Palmer and Gwen Agho fended off three others during Tuesday's special election to advance to the vote off.
Jackson voters soundly rejected a ballot measure on Tuesday that would have boosted taxes on restaurant checks and hotel bills, dealing a financial blow to the city’s tourism agency that had counted on tax proceeds to bridge a sizable gap in its budget.
Democrats have retaken control of the U.S. Senate, delivering a decisive rebuke of Republican control of governance in Washington and ushering in a new era of congressional resistance to President Donald Trump.
Mississippi's midterm Senate election remained too close to call early Wednesday as Democrats across the country swept control of Congress.
Mississippi's four U.S. representatives, three Republicans and one Democrat, easily defeated challengers on Tuesday.
Federal authorities have charged a civil rights activist with arson in a fire that damaged the Senatobia Police Department headquarters. Court filings show that officers tracked 41-year-old Garrick Rawls to a relative’s house in north Alabama using surveillance video, community tips and his cellphone signal.
Evidence that was key to King Young Brown Jr.'s appeal has not been recovered. To resolve the situation, a judge suspended the remaining half of Brown's 50-year sentence.
A new set of records mistakenly released to a local news outlet by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation provides the most detailed look yet at how the agency investigated the police shooting death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in a Walmart parking lot this summer.
The secretary of state's office on Tuesday said that its elections hotline had seen a high volume of calls and reports of late-opening precincts, voting machines being temporarily down and issues with voters verifying their registration status.
Follow live election results with Mississippi Today as Magnolia State voters help determine the balance of power in Congress.
Entergy executive: "New revenues from Mississippi data centers, like Amazon’s, are a primary reason why (electrical) rates didn’t go up" and remains below the national average.
Candles glowed Monday evening at Jackson State University as students and faculty remembered one of their own, one of two college students killed by gunfire at a Jackson nightclub over the weekend.
At the end of June 2026, Hinds County’s jails had 131 people waiting more than six months without a charging decision from a prosecutor, including 56 who had been held over a year, an analysis by The Marshall Project found.
Best-selling author Adam Makos's riveting new book is about Operation Tidal Wave during World War II. Those involved received five Medals of Honor, 56 Distinguished Service Crosses and more than 1,700 Distinguished Flying Crosses
Readers can follow Mississippi election results live on Tuesday night at mississippitoday.org, and track the balance of power in Congress.
Follow the results of the Mississippi midterm elections, and the balance of power in Congress.
A Mississippi Today analysis of voter data from the secretary of state found that in the eight months since the March primaries, inactivations more than doubled in some jurisdictions, leaving up to 1 in 5 voters in counties such as DeSoto and Wilkinson one step closer to being purged from the rolls.
The parents of a 1-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a police officer in Mississippi led a protest Monday at the office of the state's attorney general, who ruled last month that the shooting was justified.
Mississippi’s prison healthcare provider has not met the requirements of its contract, according a report published Monday by the state’s legislative watchdog committee.
A federal judge has denied Elon Musk-owned SpaceXAI’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the NAACP over its use of gas turbines to power data centers in Southaven and Memphis. The lawsuit alleges that the artificial intelligence company’s turbines require a state air permit from the Mississippi Environmental…
Mississippi voters head to the polls Tuesday for a U.S. Senate midterm race that has drawn national attention in the struggle for control of Congress.
An unusual collaboration between prosecutors and public defenders to release unindicted jail detainees exposed deeper failures in Hinds County’s criminal justice system.
Proponents of school choice policies say a new federal tax credit program is a win for the state. Opponents say it undermines Mississippi voters' rejection of school choice.
Marshall Ramsey's editorial cartoon depicts Donald Trump's giant shadow over a voter at a ballot box. The voter says, "He's not on the ballot... However."
In Mississippi, a U.S. Senate race tops the midterm ticket, which includes contested general elections for all four of the state’s U.S. House districts.
Creatures of all shapes and sizes and icons from the past, present and future put aside their differences to gather under an overcast sky for the Belhaven Boo, the Jackson's neighborhood’s annual Halloween fair Saturday.
Authorities say an arson damaged the Senatobia Police Department building early Saturday. The department has drawn protests after an officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in June. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and local agencies are investigating the fire.
A march for justice for Nolan Wells took place Sunday on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, drawing protesters from the area as well as from New Orleans, Atlanta, Chicago and other places.
Fearmongering about transgender people this midterm election cycle should not be surprising. It is a tactic as old as the country for politicians to use fear of minorities to further their own electoral goals.
The population of eastern whip-poor-wills, nocturnal birds in the nightjar family that can be spotted the Mississippi River Basin between April and September, has sharply declined.
'I don’t believe we need a senator to explain the existence of chicken,' Clinton said, panning Hyde-Smith's response to high beef prices.
Jackson State University is eliminating eight positions amid restrictions on federal funding.
Jackson is one of four cities the Trump administration has chosen for its Model Cities Initiative grant program.
High school senior and Clinton resident Jeremy Burwell is on track to go from being a fan of comics to starring in his own in national Stan Lee Super Kid contest.
Jackson Environmental Court Judge Jeffery Reynolds issued ordered the owner of the Grand Chateau apartment complex to serve nearly two years in jail.
It is clear that sending ICE or FBI agents to the polls for Tuesday's midterm election would be flatly illegal, voting rights advocates argue.
There are no immediate plans to merge Mississippi's public colleges, but lawmakers still are discussing the possibilities.
Talks of consolidating the school districts in Washington County capture a key challenge of forced mergers: requiring a well-performing district to absorb a struggling one — and all of its debt and other baggage.
Jackson lawyers are split on who should be the next Hinds County District Attorney, according to campaign finance reports.
September 2026 BLS unemployment figures showed the number of jobs in Mississippi held relatively steady, dropping by about 700 jobs compared to August, mirroring the national “no-hire, no-fire” environment.
After having a 1961 bus trek through the Deep South interrupted by firebombing, civil rights activists ended their trip in New Orleans — fulfilling a legacy of activism.
Over 200 pages of Snapchat messages pulled from the cellphone of Nolan Xavier Wells have only fueled questions surrounding what led to his death on Horn Island. The forensic phone extraction by Garrett Discovery covers messages sent within nearly 30 group chats between July 4 and July 26. The 18-year-old and his…
The West Bolivar School District struggles with issues including leadership turnover, low accountability grades and an investigation by the state Department of Education. Do those problems stem from a previous district consolidation?
The Interconnecting Gulfport project will build an overpass west of U.S. Highway 49 to provide another way across Interstate 10 and impact 98.3 acres of wetland.
Data centers are facing increasing pushback from residents in Mississippi and across the country as companies are rushing to meet the expected artificial intelligence demand for computing power.
Qingfang Pang of China had been a late recruit for Mississippi Valley State University's basketball team and only on campus for a day when ICE detained him on an expired visa.
The former Democratic president's trip to Mississippi will be the latest in a string of appearances by national figures hoping to turn out voters in the state's heated Senate race between Colom and incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
The 2015 consolidation of Starkville and Oktibbeha County school districts is considered a success, but it was costly for Black communities.
Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg campaigned on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for Democrat Scott Colom, who is trying to unseat Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Southern Miss plans to renovate the 42-year-old home of its nationally renowned baseball program, the only Division I program in the U.S. to boast 10 straight 40-victory seasons and 10 straight NCAA Tournament bids.
A Mississippi Today analysis of video captured the day a Senatobia police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley highlights key points of the encounter and shows how it escalated.
The lawsuit claims that the prices customers see on items on shelves and in advertisements are not what gets rung up at the register when they pay.
Mississippi State University is expanding on-campus housing for upperclassmen.
Here’s a simple message for our fellow Jewish voters in advance of upcoming midterm election: demand better than what we’re getting now from both parties, advocates write.
Jackson is among the most challenging cities in the United States if you’re living with asthma and has some of the highest rates of asthma-related deaths, says a 2026 report from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Among the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States, Jackson ranks third in…
Voters with a qualifying excuse can vote absentee in person at their circuit clerk’s office until noon Saturday, Oct. 31. Mail-in absentee ballots must be postmarked by Election Day, Nov. 3, and received within five business days, by Nov. 10.
State lawmakers plan to take up school district consolidation in the next session. Residents of the communities likely to be affected are concerned.
State lawmakers want to reduce the number of Mississippi's public school districts. Get answers to key questions about school district consolidation.
Democrats have grown hopeful that their U.S. Senate nominee in Mississippi, Scott Colom, might flip a seat in what has been a Republican stronghold.
SR1 College Preparatory and STEM Academy can no longer operate as a charter school after Dec. 31.
Jackson is a finalist for a federal policing grant that could pump as much as $125 million to the city's cash-strapped police department.
Hinds County Circuit Judge Faye Peterson ruled the attorney general’s office was showing a “bias” for law enforcement in declining to prosecute the manslaughter case against former Capitol Police officer Michael Lamar Rhinewalt.
This is a crazy season of college football, with Team B beating Team B, then B beating C and C beating A. Make it make sense.
Marshall Ramsey's editorial cartoon depicts a person in a full-body cast in a hospital bed, with a prescription for Medicaid expansion. Gov. Tate Reeves holds a bag labeled "Rural Hospital Fund" and says: "Rejoice! I brought you a butterfly bandage and an aspirin!"
It would take a significant hike in the sales tax to offset cities’ and counties’ loss of the homestead property tax revenue, resulting in Mississippians facing higher prices at retail establishments.
Phil Proctor, a Lucedale native, was chosen to create two sculptures for the Ocean Springs Gateway Sculpture Project inspired by Walter Anderson’s artwork.
Immigrants who enter the United States without appointments with immigration officials can be detained indefinitely and are not entitled to bond hearings, regardless of how long they have lived in the country, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
Fitch’s threat is the latest salvo between Colom’s campaign and the state GOP in a race that has generated national attention and millions of dollars from national party interests leading up to the Nov. 3 election.