Mississippi's governor signed a law on Tuesday that allows public and private businesses to refuse service to gay couples based on the employers' religious beliefs. Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1523, despite opposition from gay-rights groups and some businesses who say it enables discrimination. Some conservative and religious groups support the bill.

My father grew up in the pre-integration South, and when I was young, he would occasionally tell me stories about the horrors of segregation… By Mark Joseph Stern.

Every weekday morning, Jasmine Riley, a single parent, drops her three children off at day care and school by 7:30 a.m. so she can start a long day as a teaching assistant at Greenville’s McBride Pre-K Academy. Many afternoons, she has only an hour and a half to spend with her kids... By Miriam Hall. (Jan. 21)

Another round of severe weather hit the South, where at least nine tornadoes have been reported.

A suspect in the fatal shooting of two Mississippi police officers has died after he was found unresponsive in his cell, authorities said. Marvin Banks faced two counts of capital murder charges in the deaths of Hattiesburg officers Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate in May. Banks was found unconscious in his cell, where emergency crews performed CPR, said investigator Nick Calico of the Forrest County Sheriff's Department. He was rushed to a hospital...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will take up a Mississippi case that challenges whether non-Indians can be sued in American Indian courts... By Jeff Amy.

I didn’t fully understand or feel inspired by Grandmama’s stank or freshness until years later, when I heard the albums ATLiens and Aquemini from those Georgia-based artists called OutKast. By Kiese Laymon.

The Story Of A Modern-Day Lynching. By Albert Samaha.

At 4:49 p.m. Friday, Pascagoula turned on the lantern at the top of the Round Island Lighthouse, the city's new icon.

The Confederate battle flag is not simply flying in one hotly disputed spot at the State Capitol but occupying the upper left corner of the state flag, which has been flying since 1894.

A group that measures river basin health cited the poor condition of infrastructure such as locks and dams, among other things, on what it says is the world's fourth-largest watershed.

One Flag For All rally held in Jackson in support of effort to change state flag.

Two Death Row inmates argued that the state's lethal injection protocol is "chemical torture."