Feb. 19, 1923 A photograph of the “Elaine 12” Credit: Courtesy of Arkansas State Archives In Moore v. Dempsey, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-2 that mob-dominated...
Mississippi Department of Transportation Director Brad White says an influx of “one-time” state and federal money is allowing the agency to again build and widen roads....
The Mississippi Adequate Education Program, which provides the basics for operating local school districts, was nearly gutted in 1997 just as it was beginning its long...
Higher education officials — from the presidents of each public university to the commissioner of their central governing board — all agree: Mississippi’s faculty and staff...
Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said Thursday the Senate will have a bill by Monday’s deadline to expand Mississippi Medicaid to cover the working poor. Hosemann said...
Not a single Mississippi team is ranked in the Division I college baseball preseason polls, which is unusual. Not one. Not Mississippi State, the 2021 national...
Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield are examining the power of sheriffs’ offices in Mississippi as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship. Mississippi lawmakers...
Feb. 15, 1848 Like the Black children shown in this engraving from the Anti-Slavery Almanac in Boston, Sarah Roberts was denied entrance to school because of...
The Mississippi Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed a decision to permit a proposed military site in North Gulfport, despite local and environmental advocates’ concerns that...
A formerly incarcerated woman facing terminal breast cancer is suing the prison system’s former and current health care providers for failing to diagnose and treat the...