The Republican National Committee and Mississippi Republican Party sued state officials in federal court to prevent election workers from counting some mail-in absentee ballots during the...
Jan. 31, 1863 First South Carolina Volunteers hear the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation near Beaufort, South Carolina. Credit: U.S. Library of Congress The 1st South...
Mississippi’s appeals court reversed the manslaughter conviction of a former Jackson police officer who pulled a man from his car and slammed him to the ground,...
James Tatsch was not charged with any crime. But when he was found unresponsive in an isolation cell at the Alcorn County Jail on Jan. 17,...
Jan. 29, 1954 President Barack Obama awards the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Oprah Winfrey during a ceremony in the East Room of the White...
Senate Finance Chair Josh Harkins, R-Flowood, discusses with Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance the passage of the two major projects in consecutive weeks. The...
After the head of Mississippi Medicaid said his agency needed more time to research a policy that would make it easier for poor moms to receive...
Mississippi has the nation’s lowest per capita income at $46,248 annually and the highest percentage of people living in poverty at 18.2%. Yet the state’s tax...
Jan. 27, 1847 Adam Crosswhite Credit: Wikipedia More than 100 citizens of Marshall, Michigan, helped Adam Crosswhite, his wife, Sarah, and their children, who had escaped...
Last year, committee chairs in the House and Senate killed every Medicaid expansion bill without a debate or vote. Now, for the first time in a...
