By MICHAEL GOLDBERG JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with seven fires set across Mississippi’s capital city early Tuesday. At least two of the buildings set ablaze in Jackson were churches; one was burned to…
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) - Mississippi’s capital city has been awarded a tranche of federal funds to help fix its crumbling water infrastructure. The infusion of funds arrives after flooding-induced breakdowns at Jackson’s main…
Former Mississippi Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall has died. He was 84. “Mississippi lost one of its longest tenured public servants and I lost a great friend and mentor,” said MDOT Executive Director Brad White. “Commissioner Hall led by example and…
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG JACKSON, Miss (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency confirmed Monday that the water in Mississippi’s capital city is safe to drink, after months of sampling at a treatment plant overwhelmed by August flooding that caused wide…
MDE released ACT results for spring 2022 Mississippi Public High School juniors. Mississippi is one of 15 states that administers the ACT to all high school juniors. The average…
According to the Mississippi Department of Education 85 percent of Mississippi 3rd graders passed their reading assessment for the 2021-2022 school year. The pass rate is practically the same as…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was hospitalized Wednesday after wrecking his SUV while swerving to avoid a dog on a rural road, law enforcement officials said. Barbour, 75, had the wreck near Wolf Lake…
Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is investigating an officer-involved shooting with Sentatobia and Hernando police departments. The subject involved was fatally wounded, MBI reports. This is at least the 20th officer-involved shooting that MBI has investigated this year. The incident happened…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi community with an elaborate Confederate monument plans to unveil a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, decades after white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager for allegedly whistling at a…
A domestic disturbance call turned deadly after Lafayette County Sheriff's deputies shot a man who was threatening them with a gun. Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is investigating the officer-involved shooting that happened about 9:45 p.m. Wednesday night. Deputies received a…
Mississippi State University is mourning the death this morning of a freshman offensive lineman. The university announced that 18-year-old Sam Westmoreland of Tupelo had died. WCBI is reporting that Westmoreland was found at Blackjack Church in Oktibbeha County. No other…
JACKSON, Miss (AP) — An employee of a Mississippi wastewater hauling company pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday for his part in illegally discharging industrial waste into the capital city’s sewer system. William Roberts, an employee of Partridge-Sibley Industrial Services,…
An Ole Miss student is dead and another critically injured after a hit and run in Oxford this weekend. Oxford Police say around…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi judge has blocked a state law that put $10 million of federal pandemic relief money into infrastructure grants for private schools. The ruling by Hinds County Chancery Judge…
A police officer was killed in an officer-involved shooting in Greenville, Mississippi. According to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, it happened around 8:30 last night near Highways 1…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police in Mississippi’s capital city have agreed to pull back on aggressive roadblocks in response to a lawsuit that said Jackson officers were violating people’s constitutional right to be free of unreasonable search and…
By JIM SALTER The unusually low water level in the lower Mississippi River is causing barges to get stuck in mud and sand, disrupting river travel for shippers, recreational boaters and even passengers on a cruise line. Lack of rainfall in recent…
By ERICA HUNZINGER Mississippi’s largest public corruption case, in which tens of millions of dollars earmarked for needy families was misspent, involves a number of sports figures with ties to the state — including NFL royalty Brett Favre and a…
NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre has hired an attorney to represent him in the Mississippi Department of Human Services scandal. Although Favre has not been charged in the investigation, he hired former White House counsel Eric Herschmann to…
The Mississippi Board of Education voted Thursday to adopt its proposed weapons policy update, which removed language that conflicted with Mississippi’s 2011 enhanced conceal carry laws. The State Board’s policy update does not give school personnel the ability to carry…
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan has returned to Mississippi’s capital city to meet with Jackson officials about the city’s troubled water system. Federal attorneys also sent a letter…
By KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON (AP) — More than $12 billion in Ukraine-related aid will be included as part of stopgap spending bill that would fund the federal government into mid-December, a person familiar with the legislation said Monday. The funding…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After Mississippi spent millions of dollars in welfare money on Brett Favre’s pet project, a university volleyball arena, the retired NFL quarterback tried two years later to get additional cash from the state’s welfare agency for another…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Four former circuit court judges will help handle a backlog of criminal cases that have accumulated in Mississippi’s largest county during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike Randolph appointed Stephen B. Simpson of…