Robert St. John says some bridges get you to the other side while others change the direction of everything. Two years of ...

Corey Wiggins, a Hazlehurst native and federal co-chair of the Delta Regional Authority, will be the next president of Tougaloo College effective July 1.  He will be the 15th president in the school’s ...

Mississippians have the right to demand fairness and oppose discrimination. But in financial regulation fairness ultimately flows from clarity, not from multiplying regulators.

A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 3am. Mostly cloudy. Low around 40, with temperatures rising to around 46 overnight. North wind around 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance ...

Max Baria, a 17-year-old high school senior from Bay St. Louis, is a good-looking, soft-spoken, highly intelligent young man, who emerged this basketball season as one of the best high school players ...

Pike County has always been full of athletic talent, and a plethora of players from the area have gone on to have successful careers at the collegiate and/or professional level.

Rep. Becky Currie, a Brookhaven Republican who filed the prison death oversight legislation and chairs the House Corrections Committee, has told lawmakers that people continue to die in prison and ...

A Hinds County Chancery judge on Wednesday ordered the Mississippi Division of Medicaid to temporarily stop collecting money owed by Greenwood Leflore Hospital after the hospital said resuming the ...

A bill cleared the Legislature on Wednesday that would temporarily ease state approval requirements for rural hospitals, allowing them to add new services or make costly upgrades as lawmakers aim to ...

Officials tasked with selecting and naming the next Jackson State University president plan to choose three top candidates ...

Mississippi Today Ideas is a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share their ideas about our state’s past, present and future. Opinions expressed in guest essays are the author’s own and do not ...

He will always be remembered as one who tried to get the races to come together,” said Constance Slaughter-Harvey.  Pioneering pastor and civil rights leader John Perkins left the world Friday, but ...