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Case files on 1964 Civil Rights worker killings made public

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JACKSON, Miss. — Never before seen case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers...

Jill Biden touts vaccine in poorly inoculated Mississippi

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JACKSON, Miss. — First lady Jill Biden visited one of the states least vaccinated against COVID-19 on Tuesday, encouraging residents of Mississippi to get...

Mississippi: Ex-lawmaker killed near home of slain relative

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WATER VALLEY, Miss. — A former Mississippi lawmaker was found shot to death during the weekend in a rural area outside the burned home...

Mississippi reckons with ending pay boost for the unemployed

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JACKSON, Miss. — Katrina Folks says she has tried everything she can think of to find work since losing her job in September because...

Transportation secretary to visit closed interstate bridge

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit the Interstate 40 bridge connecting Tennessee and Arkansas that's been indefinitely closed after a...

Mississippi city honors Freedom Rider legacy 60 years later

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JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi's capital city is honoring the civil rights activism of the late Rev. C.T. Vivian 60 years after he and other...

Mississippi court upholds life sentence for pot possession

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JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a life sentence for a man convicted of a marijuana possession charge because...

Mississippi welfare payments increasing 3 months early

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JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi is increasing the nation's lowest welfare payments three months earlier than expected, the state Department of Human Services said Friday. ...

High court won’t block Mississippi school disparity lawsuit

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JACKSON, Miss. — The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday it will not get involved, for now, in a lawsuit that says Mississippi allows grave...

Years later, Chickasaw remains returned to Mississippi home

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JACKSON, Miss. — A man and a woman were found buried among wolf teeth and turtle shells. Other graves contained mothers and infants. Some...