The 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.
Read moreMany in Mississippi’s African-American community had waited decades for a civil rights museum. But with President Donald Trump coming to the museum’s opening Saturday, some will skip the eagerly anticipated opening.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Mississippi attorney who believes the state flag is an unconstitutional endorsement of white supremacy.
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A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted of a grand jury indictment, unsealed Wednesday, accusing him of evidence tampering by planting a weapon near the body of a man he shot to death in 2013.
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A Mississippi hospital faces a negligence lawsuit for claims that its now-imprisoned paramedic sexually assaulted a patient in the back of an ambulance while the driver recorded some of it on his cellphone.
Read moreA federal lawsuit filed by more than two dozen parents of students enrolled in the Jackson Public School District accuses Mississippi education officials of planning an unconstitutional state takeover of the district without any community input.
Read moreNissan has defeated the United Auto Workers’ attempt to unionize the auto plant in Canton, Mississippi, garnering No votes from 63 percent of the 3,551 workers who voted in the two-day election, marred by acrimonious, blistering statements from both sides.
Read moreDrawing the attention of politicians and labor interests nationwide, workers at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi entered voting booths Thursday and Friday to cast their secret ballots in a decision that could see one of the nation’s largest unions expanding its reach beyond Motor City.
Read moreA Mississippi law firm must fork over $314,000 in unpaid monthly retainer fees to a PR company it hired after taking a potential controversial case related to the multi-state tobacco litigation, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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A U.S. Marine aircraft that crashed into a Mississippi soybean field Monday evening killed 15 Marines and one Navy Corpsman after the flight originating from North Carolina disappeared from air traffic control radar, officials said Tuesday.
Read moreA mom in Cleveland, Mississippi, claims in court that the local school board appointed a white co-valedictorian rather than have her daughter stand alone on stage as the school’s first black valedictorian in its 110-year history.
Read moreA property-rights dispute denied Monday by the Supreme Court led Justice Neil Gorsuch to note in a brief dissent that the issue is one worth exploring with a stronger case.
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