The Latest Breaking News from Mississippi

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has filed to run for a second four-year term

Mississippi gets commitment from Basha (Ariz.) four-star quarterback Desmond Williams Jr.

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families is supposed to help some of the poorest people, and Mississippi has long been one of the poorest states in the U.S. But a welfare misspending scandal in Republican-led Mississippi has ensnared high-profile people, including retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre

Wayne Fraser, from Aberdeenshire, is set to stand trial next month for allegedly killing his wife.

YAZOO COUNTY, Miss. — A cacophony of barking, baaing, and neighing reverberates across an acre of farmland that represents the backyard of Kenny Gainwell’s trailer home. Standing in the middle of his family’s yard, the second-year Eagles running back is sporting a beat-up pair of team-issued Nike trainers. The once-white…

Officials have been struggling for months to patch up an "old, crumbling system" while planning for a more permanent fix.

Frigid weather that has upended infrastructure across the Deep South has stopped the water distribution in Mississippi's capital city from producing adequate pressure

Mississippi’s largest county has won a legal victory in its effort to stave off a rare federal takeover of a jail

The problems stemming from burst water pipes were happening in large, troubled water systems such as Jackson, Miss., where residents were required over Christmas to boil water.

US city of Jackson, Mississippi, is once again under a boil-water advisory after months of unsafe drinking water.

City officials in Jackson, Mississippi, say residents must boil their drinking water due to water lines bursting in the frigid temperatures