Southern Miss currently holds the nation’s longest winning streak at 10 games and has moved into position to possibly host an NCAA Regional. Scott Berry’s USM...
On the heels of several major hospitals departing the Mississippi Hospital Association, the organization’s leader is baffled. The hospitals’ move comes shortly after the association’s political...
MAY 10, 2007 Left to right, John Lewis, Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Andrew Young attended the 1965 funeral of Jimmie Lee Jackson, whose...
State Rep. Earle Banks, a Democrat representing Jackson in the House since 1993, faces a federal criminal charge for allegedly evading payment of federal income taxes....
Mississippi Today wins the Pulitzer Prize. Six words I have always believed would be spoken. Six words that a betting woman might have laughed off when...
Following a few hiccups, the federal government finalized Alliance Healthcare System’s rural emergency hospital status, according to the hospital’s leaders. This makes Alliance the first in...
It’s the new silent killer in Mississippi. Since 2020, the state has seen at least 27 overdose deaths from the animal tranquilizer xylazine, either alone or...
Wilson Furr, shown her during the 2022 Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today Twenty-four-year-old professional golfer Wilson Furr, from Jackson, made national...
MAY 9, 1928 First NFL game with an all-Black officiating crew on Nov. 23, 2020. Burl Toler, pictured far right, was remembered. Credit: NBC Sports Burl...
Read Mississippi Today’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series ‘The Backchannel’ by Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today May 8, 2023 Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize...