Nov 27 Justices reject appeal over Confederate emblem on Mississippi flag By Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an African-American attorney who called the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag “an official endorsement of white supremacy.”… Continue reading
Oct 27 Watch 7:18 Jesmyn Ward’s ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ is a ghost story about the real struggles of living By PBS News Hour Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward writes the stories of the people and places she found absent in literature while growing up. Her new fiction novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” weaves the supernatural with genuine characters that are molded by the rural and… Continue watching
Oct 16 Thad Cochran absent from Congress due to illness By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press The GOP veteran from Mississippi, 79, has been absent from Washington for a month. Continue reading
Jul 11 Marine Corps confirms 16 dead after military plane crash By Joshua Barajas Sixteen people are dead after a Marine Corps tanker crashed Monday in a field in northern Mississippi, officials said Tuesday. Continue reading
Jun 27 5 important stories you may have missed By Joshua Barajas, Laura Santhanam, Iman Smith In a week fraught with murky developments over the GOP Senate health care bill, here are some important stories you may have missed. Continue reading
May 28 Eight people dead in Mississippi shootings after domestic dispute By Kamala Kelkar A suspect was arrested after a house-to-house shooting spree that killed eight in rural Mississippi on Saturday night, including a sheriff’s deputy. Continue reading
Mar 25 In the state with the highest medical debt, it’s the middle class who carries the burden By Max Blau, STAT Nearly 40 percent of adults under 65 carry medical debt, and many of them are middle class. When they don't pay their bills, hospitals must eat the cost. Continue reading
Mar 18 Court blocks Mississippi law that would have shuttered state’s only abortion clinic By Michael D. Regan A federal court in Mississippi on Friday ruled against a state law that would have shut down the state's lone abortion clinic in the city of Jackson. Continue reading
Nov 02 Assailants set fire to black Mississippi church, spray paint ‘Vote Trump’ By Kenya Downs The attack on a black church is the latest in a long history of racially motivated voter intimidation tactics. Continue reading
Oct 29 To boost downtowns, some cities loosen rules on public drinking By Tim Henderson, Stateline Beginning in the 1950s, many cities banned open containers of alcohol in public. Now several cities are bringing it back — in a controlled fashion. Continue reading