A Mississippi appeals court reversed and remanded a 60-year sentence without possibility of parole, as well as a $2 million fine against Dennis Beal, a black man who was convicted of selling one-tenth of a gram of cocaine for $30.
Read moreA woman claims in a federal complaint that while she was jailed in Smith County, Miss., for three months without a hearing, she was raped and given herpes by a jailer who has since been fired.
Read moreA federal judge sent to trial a black female police officer’s claim of racial and sexual discrimination and retaliation against the city of Jackson, Mississippi.
Read moreRepublican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith became Mississippi’s first woman elected to Congress Tuesday night, defeating former congressman and secretary of agriculture Mike Espy, in an election marred by race following a remark she made about her willingness to attend a public hanging.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request from the NAACP to extend the deadline for absentee ballots to include those received through today’s U.S. Senate runoff election in Mississippi.
Read moreDogged by controversy for her remark about willingness to attend a public hanging, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, President Donald Trump at her side, told Mississippi voters on Monday: “What’s on the ballot is not just my name, Cindy Hyde-Smith, but your conservative values, that’s what’s on the ballot tomorrow.”
Read moreA federal judge Tuesday struck down Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of gestation, blasting the state for passing a law it “knew was unconstitutional” and wasting taxpayer dollars defending it in court.
Read moreA white Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi said during a debate with her African-American Democratic opponent Tuesday night that she apologizes to people who were offended when she complimented a supporter by saying she would attend a “public hanging” if the supporter invited her.
Read moreRecommending they read William Faulkner to learn the “boundaries of human decency,” a federal judge on Friday admonished former Mississippi police officers accused of forcing a mentally disabled man to eat a mouthful of cinnamon days after making him box a cop.
Read moreA Mississippi woman claims in a federal lawsuit Wednesday that she was sickened with salmonella poisoning from eating contaminated Goldfish crackers subject to last month’s nationwide recall.
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Justice has reopened the 63-year-old case of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal murder in 1955 helped trigger the civil rights movement.
Read moreFrom Mississippi to the open lands of Utah, millions of voters are casting their ballots in primary elections across the nation Tuesday, as Democrats in four states look for a “blue wave” to sweep open seats and counteract the GOP election upset in 2016 of President Donald Trump.
Read moreThe Center for Reproductive Rights sued Mississippi officials Monday to block a new set of laws the group says are designed to cut off a woman’s constitutionally protected right to abortion care.
Read moreA Mississippi nonprofit sued the city of Ocean Springs on Tuesday, claiming its display of the state flag is “racially hostile and demeaning” because of its inclusion of the Confederate battle emblem.
Read moreA federal class action filed Tuesday accuses Mississippi of enforcing an arcane lifetime voting ban that keeps citizens convicted of certain felonies from ever being able to vote.
Read moreMississippi Governor Phil Bryant on Wednesday appointed state agriculture commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith to fill outgoing U.S. Senator Thad Cochran’s seat, who is retiring due to health issues.
Read moreMississippi lawmakers passed a bill Thursday outlawing abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a measure that would create the nation’s most restrictive abortion law if it is signed by the Republican governor who supports it.
Read moreThe southern United States woke up Tuesday to a winter storm that brought ice to much of Texas and snow to other states including Tennessee and Mississippi, prompting warnings of dangerous travel conditions.
Read moreEvery time it rains in Pascagoula, Mississippi, something bad happens to the water in Bayou Casotte: the rain helps flush 7 million gallons of contaminated wastewater into the bay on the Pascagoula River.
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