The Latest Breaking News from Mississippi

The federal government will put $600 million toward repairing the troubled water system in Mississippi’s capital city — a project that the mayor has said could cost billions of dollars

The Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP and five Mississippi voters filed a lawsuit in federal district court on Dec. 20 challenging the state’s newly enacted legislative district map. The suit alleges that the boundaries the legislature enacted in March 2022 violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act and “illegally dilute…

A Mississippi man who threatened to kill Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky has pleaded guilty to making threats in interstate commerce

Officials now say that a Mississippi police officer shot and killed a woman even as the woman was fatally shooting the officer and his partner in the parking lot of a Gulf Coast motel on Wednesday

A storm system that spawned dozens of reported tornadoes from east Texas to the Florida Panhandle was all but done with the South on Thursday after killing at least three people and uprooting families across Louisiana, where some homes were blown into pieces

Gina Raimondo doesn't “know why any woman would want to live in a state that criminalizes full access to health care.” The assertion by the 40th U.S. Secretary of Commerce is especially relevant after the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June that upheld…

Thomas Edwin Loden Jr was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday night, becoming the second inmate executed in the state in 10 years

Loden was found lying on the streets in 2000 with ‘I’m sorry’ carved on his chest

An official at Mississippi State Penitentiary told how Thomas Edwin Loden Jr “was really up and in good spirits and he has a full belly” after being given a last meal before his execution