The Latest Breaking News from Mississippi

A species of tiny fish that once flourished in the U.S. South's Pearl River is being reintroduced there after disappearing 50 years ago

Senatobia, Mississippi, Police Chief Richard Chandler said an officer involved in detaining a 10-year-old boy who urinated in public is "no longer employed" by the department. He also said that other officers involved in the incident will face discipline. Chandler did not specify whether the officer quit or was fired,…

A candidate for Mississippi attorney general says that elected officials must play a more aggressive role in protecting labor rights

Welcome to the Thursday, August 31, 2023, Brew. 

A group of hunters have captured the longest alligator ever to be recorded in Mississippi

A local news outlet that helped expose a wide-reaching public corruption scandal has filed its legal defense against a defamation lawsuit brought by former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant

‘Humongous’ record-breaking beast wrestled from Yazoo River by four friends after epic seven-hour tustle

Welcome to the Monday, August 28, Brew. 

Wheeler Parker, minister of a suburban Argo church, talks about Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching and brutal murder by white supremacists in Mississippi — and what triggered it.

A federal appeals court will not revive a lawsuit by the family of a Mississippi lawyer who took his own life

Mississippi voters will head back to the polls next week to resolve a handful of state legislative contests from the Aug. 8 primaries in which no candidate reached the vote majority needed to advance to November's general election