The Latest Breaking News from Mississippi

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, received a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary after being on death row since 1976

Massive reduction to National Parks Service budget and Donald Trump’s culture war against ‘DEI’ could spell end for national monument to Black teen murdered by a mob of white men in 1955

The federal holiday recognizes when enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas found out they were free. But New York, Ohio, Mississippi and Florida have their own freedom days

The blockbuster horror film “Sinners” features the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in a short, but impactful scene

Officer David Cunningham, 22, was off duty but wearing his Prichard PD badge and had man handcuffed in patrol car during alleged incident

On Jan. 5, 2025, at about 2:35 in the afternoon, the first severe hailstorm of the season dropped quarter-size hail in Chatham, Mississippi. According to the federal storm events database, there were no injuries, but it caused $10,000 in property damage.

Mississippi’s Operation Good engaged teens in a range of programs, protecting them from crime – but that work is now in jeopardy

Director Ryan Coogler kicked off screenings and a cultural festival in the influential Mississippi delta city

Director Ryan Coogler and other cast and crew members of the hit film “Sinners” visited Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the film is set, for a special screening

Plus: Brett Favre, Monaco, and an unprecedented media ban.

When wood thrushes arrive in northern Mississippi on their spring migration and begin to serenade my neighborhood with their ethereal, harmonized song, it’s one of the great joys of the season. It’s also a minor miracle. These small creatures have just flown more than 1,850 miles (3,000 kilometers), all the…