The Mississippi Supreme Court blocks a death row inmate’s appeal over the state’s planned use of a lethal injection drug. In an order Thursday, justices said Thomas Loden’s 2016 appeal over the sedative midazolam is moot because legislators this year…
A study group will gather facts, but does not intend to make recommendations either for or against creating a state lottery. The announcement was made at the Mississippi House Lottery Study Working Group meeting. Mississippi is one of six states…
A Mississippi man is under arrest on a felony child abuse charge after police say he purposefully locked a disabled child in a hot car to punish the girl’s mother. Thirty-one year-old Brandon Windham was arrested in Columbus after witnesses…
President Trump’s proposed 2018 budget includes cuts to the Department of Education, cuts that would eliminate the title II program which helps train, recruit and retrain teachers. It’s a program that Mississippi relies on and if eliminated it would mean…
The upcoming special session for the Mississippi Legislature will solely focus on dealing with the state budget. Previously there was speculation lawmakers could consider the idea of a lottery during next month’s special session. Governor Phil Bryant put an end…
The sentencing phase begins today for former corrections commissioner Christopher Epps. This is for his participation in a bribery scandal a little over two years ago. After pleading guilty, Epps faces up to 23 years in prison and is forfeiting…
The Mississippi NAACP is calling for the resignation of Republican State Representative Karl Oliver for his remarks saying Louisiana officials should be lynched for removing Confederate monuments. Oliver apologized Monday for the lynching remark he made Saturday in a Facebook…
Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says he does not expect legislators to debate the creation of a state lottery during a special session next month. Governor Phil Bryant is calling lawmakers back to the capitol starting June 5th to finish…
A sworn statement shows a Mississippi teenager charged with murder in the death of a six-year-old boy told investigators that the boy was shot by another of the three suspects. We’re also learning that the six-year-old was shot multiple times.…
The city of New Orleans is set take down the statue of confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee today. New Orleans Police placed barricades around lee circle, where the controversial monument stands. It is the last of four confederate-era statues to…
Results are in and more students passed the third grade reading gate test this year than last. The literacy based promotion act requires third graders to pass a reading assessment to advance to the fourth grade. The percentage of students…
Three people are in custody, charged with capital murder for the kidnapping and murder of a six-year-old boy in Mississippi. It all began overnight when the little boy, Kingston Frazier, was asleep inside his mother’s Toyota Camry. She was at…
The Mississippi Supreme Court is hearing arguments over the under funding of Mississippi's Education Funding Formula. Former Governor Ronnie Musgrove is making his case to justices demanding the state pay $236 million dollars for shorting 21 school districts between 2010…
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards says a proposal that would make it more difficult to remove confederate monuments is impractical and unnecessarily divisive. During a news conference yesterday, the democratic governor wouldn't say whether he would veto republican representative Thomas…
The city of New Orleans has removed yet another monument earlier this morning.. The PGT Beauregard monument is the third of four confederate-era monuments removed from the city in recent weeks. The removal comes after the city had already taken…
Former Governor Ronnie Musgrove will try to breathe new life into his lawsuit over school funding Wednesday, seeking to persuade Mississippi’s high court that a Hinds County judge was wrong to rule against school districts seeking more money. Musgrove argues…
Governor Phil Bryant is trying to get to Mississippi counties federal disaster assistance. Yesterday Governor Bryant officially requested President Donald Trump declares the April 30th tornadoes in homes and Montgomery counties Disasters. Bryant also asks Trump to approve assistance to…
New data shows Mississippi’s economy grew at a 3.4 percent annual rate from July through September. That figure is just shy of the national growth rate. Mississippi’s performance picked up from 2016's second quarter when the economy grew at just…
A historical change in the city of New Orleans overnight. Masked crews, using a massive crane and trucks removed a controversial statue of former confederate President Jefferson Davis. It's the second of four confederate-era monuments to be removed from city…
Thousands of bodies may be buried at the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus. They are former patients of a 19th century mental institution that once stood on a wooded area on the campus of Ole Miss. With plans in…
State lawmakers will head back to Jackson in less than a month to finish the state budget. Their work will include funding the Mississippi Department of Transportation. M-DOT's commissioner says our roads and bridges are crumbling and has projected it…
A federal lawsuit says law enforcement officers in one majority-white Mississippi county are unfairly targeting black people for traffic stops and searches of homes and property without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi sued the…
Hattiesburg Zoo is mourning the death of Cinta, a five-year-old Sumatran Tiger, who passed away from a sudden illness. Cinta and his twin brother, Kuasa, were born August 2, 2011 and have been on permanent loan from the Los Angeles…
According to Attorney General Jim Hood nearly 6,000 Mississippi students are eligible for federal student loan cancellation. Eligible students must have attended and used those loans at schools operated by the for-profit Corinthian Colleges, Inc. including Everest Institute, Everest College,…