The Tupelo City Council is expected to discuss Mississippi’s controversial state flag this week. Council president Lynn Bryan plans to bring up a resolution before the city council that will ask the legislature for a new state flag. The council…
Governor Phil Bryant meets with a leader of president-elect Donald Trump's transition team. According to a post on the governor's Facebook page, the meeting happened yesterday in Washington D.C. Bryant has said he is not actively seeking an appointment in…
Mississippi is staying in the Republican column for the 10th straight presidential election, giving Donald Trump a comfortable win and the state's six electoral votes for president. The state's voters were choosing Trump by a broader margin than they chose…
Governor Phil Bryant releases this statement via his Facebook page this morning. "It appears Donald J. Trump has won the presidency. Our republic gives voters the power to decide elections. Hardworking patriots rose up on Election Day and reminded the…
Mississippians have paid attention to the presidential race and are turning out. Those were the words from Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann today. Hosemann gave a report on Election Day within the state. He tells News 25 there were two…
Four men have been charged in the death of a senior marketing major at Mississippi State University. Joseph Tillman, from the Delta town of Schlater, was found dead early Sunday from what authorities believe stemmed from an attempted robbery. The…
Former Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps says he was not thinking and made a mistake by removing items from the house he forfeited to the federal government. His bond revocation hearing continues today as a federal judge considers evidence about whether…
The last of Mississippi’s eight public universities will no longer fly the state flag that prominently features the Confederate Battle Emblem. Delta State University President Bill LaForge announced the decision, saying the flag has been retired to the university's archives.…
The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the arson and vandalism of an African-American church in Greenville where "Vote Trump" was spray painted on the wall. Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons called the fire and graffiti a "heinous, hateful,…
Mississippi house minority leader David Baria has written a letter to the inspector general of the National Guard to investigate claims Congressman Steven Palazzo went AWOL during his time with the National Guard. The reasoning behind the letter is because…
Police have announced the person killed in a shooting in Memphis, Tennessee Tuesday night was from Mississippi. Memphis police say the 16-year-old girl who was shot and killed along with the five others wounded were all from Mississippi. They say…
A reward has been issued for anyone with information in connection to the Greenville Church that was set on fire. Police and fire department officials do believe this fire was the work of an arsonist, which is why they have…
Pro-Donald Trump Graffiti is scrawled on a burning historic black church in western Mississippi. All signs point to arson. Someone spray painted “Vote Trump” on Hopewell Baptist Church in Greenville. Firefighters discovered the message as flames engulfed the church last…
This morning search crews located the body of 60 year old Anthony Palode , the fishermen who fell into the Pass Christian Harbor early Tuesday morning. Witnesses told police they saw Palode struggle while he was fishing on the pier…
A Halloween hayride left a Newton County mother and two of her daughters dead after it collided with another vehicle last night. The third child remains in critical condition with serious injuries as tragedy strikes again for this family in…
Former Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps was arrested today in Flowood, Mississippi on charges of burglary. Flowood police say they arrested Epps for allegedly removing light fixtures from his home which was forfeited as part of his February 2015 guilty plea…
No one in Mississippi who has applied for welfare assistance through a federal program has undergone treatment since the state enacted a drug testing law two years ago. A spokesman for the State Department of Human Services says the agency…
As drought conditions persist statewide, this morning the Mississippi Forestry Commission continues to enforce burn bans across the state of Mississippi. As of yesterday, 66 of the 82 counties in Mississippi were under some type of burn ban. Not included…
Mississippi legislators are combing through state agencies’ travel reports to try to cut costs on events such as out-of-state conferences. Members of the House and Senate budget groups met Monday with several officials, including Medicaid Director David Dzielak and Corrections…
A trial date has been set for the man accused of burning a Mississippi teenager to death back in 2014. Twenty-eight year-old Quinton Tellis will stand trial on June 19th. He's charged with capital murder accused of setting 19-year-old Jessica…
A former state senator is scheduled to become the sixth person to plead guilty in Mississippi’s prison contract bribery scandal. U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate is set to accept Irb Benjamin’s plea Tuesday morning in Jackson. Indicted in August…
Congressman Steven Palazzo confirms his support and endorsement of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Earlier this week Palazzo's opponent in Mississippi’s Fourth Congressional race, Democratic Mark Gladney called on Palazzo to revoke his endorsement of Trump. This in the wake…
The Cleveland School District says it's ready to stop fighting a plan to merge historically black and white schools, but some say the willingness to act comes at a cost: closing historically black schools. The move is a concession for…
It looks like removing the Confederate battle emblem from the Mississippi state flag is not something residents will vote on in the coming years. Saturday is the deadline for gathering signatures on Initiative 55, the measure that seeks to place…