Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. What happened next is a statewide scandal.

Our critic visits a museum whose story is still unfolding, from 1960s Jackson, to Ferguson and Charlottesville. It leaves us upset —and that’s good.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an African-American attorney who called the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag “an official endorsement of white supremacy.”

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — It's not ironic, but intentional. Ulysses S. Grant, the Union general who won the Civil War and later the presidency, is back in Mississippi in a way few

A Mississippi school district will resume teaching "To Kill A Mockingbird" after the book was pulled from a junior high reading list. The Sun Herald reports that Biloxi School District administrators removed the novel from the eighth-grade curriculum earlier this month after the district received complaints that some of the book's language "makes people uncomfortable."

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A federal appeals court has dismissed the challenge to HB 1523, the most expansive ‘religious liberty’ law in the U.S. LGBT people in Mississippi should rightly be very afraid.

The unusual ecological experiment took place in Mississippi, and the scientists were awed by the results—especially the rivers of maggots. By Christie Wilcox.

At Ole Miss, where even an architect of disenfranchisement still has his name on a building, the process of addressing the past is more sensitive than at most universities.

Hours after a plane crashed in the Mississippi Delta on Monday, the Marine Corps said that a KC-130 airplane had suffered a “mishap.”

Billions over budget and three years behind, the Kemper County coal gasification project will now produce electricity using natural gas. By Jason Daley.

A man who apparently got into a dispute with his wife and in-laws was arrested in a house-to-house shooting rampage in rural Mississippi that left eight people dead, including a sheriff's deputy. "I ain't fit to live, not after what I done," a handcuffed Willie Corey Godbolt, 35, told The Clarion-Ledger.

Mississippi State Representative Karl Oliver wrote on Facebook that leaders who removed Confederate monuments in Louisiana should be ‘lynched.’ By Harold Gater, Geoff Pender. [Autoplay]

An LGBT advocacy group said Madison County’s first homicide of 2017 is also the nation’s first transgender homicide this year. Madison County spokesman Heath Hall said authorities received a call about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday about a possible death. Coroner Alex Breeland said the body of Omario Caldwell, also known as Mesha Caldwell, was found on Heindl Road near Old Yazoo City Road. He confirmed the death is a homicide but would not release a cause pending autopsy.

Tennie White’s work as an activist forced big corporations to clean up the messes they made in African-American communities. So the EPA put her in jail. By Sharon Lerner.

House panel adopts new policy limiting access to legislative contracts while claiming it adds transparency. By Kate Royals.

A federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law that banned the state's Medicaid program from spending money with any health care provider that offers abortions. U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III ruled Thursday in a lawsuit filed in mid-June by two Planned Parenthood affiliates. The law took effect July 1. Jordan said every court to consider similar laws has found they violate the "free-choice-of-provider" provision of federal law. Medicaid is paid by federal and state dollars.

Ever since Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860, rumors of a slave insurrection had been growing along the plantations in the lower Mississippi River Valley.

“The officers made their way down to the pair of moonshiners and went through the typical rigmarole of an arrest, everything they’d been taught. But before they started busting up the still with the axes they’d brought along, Rusty Hanna said something that caused all parties to freeze: ‘Now we’re gonna cook some whiskey.’” By Phil McCausland.

County officials across Mississippi are warning of job losses and deep deficits as local jails are being deprived of the state inmates needed to keep them afloat. The culprit, say local officials, is state government and private prisons, which are looking to boost their own revenue as sentencing and drug-policy reforms are sending fewer bodies into the correctional system. By Ryan Grim.