Mississippi Today’s “Unfettered Power: Mississippi Sheriffs” investigation has been selected as one of six finalists for the coveted 2024 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The 2023...
A bill to close three public universities in Mississippi will die as expected after inspiring a weeklong ruckus that some lawmakers blamed on misleading news articles....
House leaders say they’ve been working independently of any other group for more than a year to develop their sweeping new public education funding plan, which...
March 5, 1770 Speculative portrait of Crispus Attucks Credit: Wikipedia Crispus Attucks, who had escaped slavery, became the first of five killed by British soldiers in...
Mississippi law enforcement officers who sexually abuse those detained or on supervised release could face up to five years in prison under a bill pending in...
Two Mississippi Supreme Court justices will face challengers in their reelection bids this year, and three people are running for an open seat on the Mississippi...
With his fellow Republican leaders set against him and pushing Medicaid expansion through the Legislature, Gov. Tate Reeves had a statewide platform last week with his...
Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance talk with Spence Flatgard, chair of Ballot Access Mississippi, about legislation pending in 2024 session that would restore the...
Riding around curvy roads in northeast Mississippi campaigning for reelection in 2007, Republican Gov. Haley Barbour unveiled to a reporter his plan to create a state...
After facing initial pushback, a proposal to close most of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman passed its first hurdle in the Senate Corrections Committee Friday...
