Rashad Price, 26, of Slidell, Louisiana, has been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of Jay Jackson, 25, aboard a Greyhound bus on Interstate 10 in Mississippi.
Six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to breaking into a home and torturing two Black men were sentenced to prison terms of about 10 to 40 years.
Former MS law enforcement officers Daniel Opdyke and Christian Dedmon are to be sentenced for torturing two Black men, and new information came out about a past assault of Dedmon's.
Six former Rankin County, MS, deputies are on trial for the racist torture of Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. The first of them was sentenced to 20 years.
Six former Mississippi police officers await sentencing after pleading guilty to a long list of crimes in the racially motivated torturing of two Black men.
The MS Senate killed a proposal Monday to restore a ballot initiative process, days after a 26-21 vote to pass a bill that would allow residents to put some policy proposals on statewide ballots.
Mississippi held primary elections for its four U.S. House seats as well as one U.S. Senate seat. Incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Wicker will advance to the general election.
The Mississippi Senate has approved a bill for the second year in a row aiming to transfer control of Jackson's troubled water system to a regional board.
A new Mississippi law will allow Medicaid to pay for a pregnant woman's outpatient medical care for up to 60 days while her Medicaid application is being considered.
The Mississippi party primaries for all four of the state's U.S. House seats and one U.S. Senate seat are March 12, 2024. There are challengers for every seat except House District 3.
Mississippi's Republican Secretary of State is calling on the Biden administration to stop enforcing an executive order he says is registering non-eligible voters.
Many cities in the US, like Prichard, Alabama, are facing severe water infrastructure problems due to decades of neglect and underinvestment, officials say.
The city of Lexington and its police department received a letter from the DOJ explaining that jailing people for unpaid fees and fines they don't have the means to pay is unlawful.
In Vicksburg, Mississippi, recent ceremonies honored the memory of 18 Black soldiers who fought for the Union and were killed or wounded in 1864 by Confederate soldiers.
Mississippi's House, dominated by Republicans, passed legislation Wednesday which expands Medicaid benefits to a state with the highest rate of preventable deaths in the U.S.
Lawmakers in the Mississippi state House and Senate say they are unlikely to pass a bill closing three of eight universities based on enrollment and economic impact, among other factors.
A new U.S. Department of Justice report released Wednesday covers conditions at three prisons in Mississippi, arguing that the Department of Corrections does not have enough staff.