Mississippians on Tuesday overwhelming approved a new state flag design featuring the magnolia flower to replace the 126-year-old Confederate-themed battle flag brought down by lawmakers this summer amid calls for racial justice and equality.
Read moreAn attorney tackled to the ground and dragged out of the Lowndes County courthouse by a security guard for refusing to walk through a metal detector may sue the county for failing to hire sufficiently trained law enforcement officers, a federal judge ruled.
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New Orleans moved out of Hurricane Sally’s path Tuesday morning as the Category 1 storm crept slowly east toward Mississippi and Alabama, prompting calls for evacuation over flash flooding concerns as forecasters predict up to 2 feet of rain.
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Tropical Storm Sally, the earliest S-named storm on record in the Atlantic, is expected to slow down over the Gulf of Mexico on Monday evening before strengthening into a hurricane Tuesday with life-threatening storm surge along the Gulf Coast, including metropolitan New Orleans.
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A Mississippi man freed last year after 22 years in prison will not be tried a seventh time in a quadruple murder case, a judge ruled Friday after prosecutors told him they no longer had any credible witnesses.
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A commission on Wednesday chose a new Mississippi state flag design featuring the magnolia flower to replace the Confederate-themed flag brought down by lawmakers two months ago in response to nationwide calls for racial equality.
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Mississippi is one step closer to picking a new state flag after a commission on Tuesday advanced five final designs from the thousands of submissions received to replace the Confederate-themed flag brought down by lawmakers in June amid nationwide calls for racial justice.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit upheld the EPA’s addition of the Rockwell International Wheel & Trim facility in Grenada, Mississippi, to the National Priorities List identifying hazardous waste sites in urgent need of environmental cleanup.
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Packed elevators and crowded committee rooms. Legislators sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on the House and Senate floor. People standing close to each other and talking, sometimes leaning in to whisper, without a mask in sight.
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At least eight Mississippi lawmakers have tested positive for the coronavirus after working several weeks in the Capitol, where many people stood or sat close together and did not wear masks.
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(CN) — Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves on Tuesday signed a bill officially retiring the Confederate symbol that has been sewed
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Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.
Read moreSpectators at the Mississippi Capitol broke into applause Saturday as lawmakers took a big step toward erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has come under intensifying criticism in recent weeks amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.
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Cristobal weakened to a tropical depression Monday morning, after crashing ashore as a lopsided tropical storm Sunday in Louisiana and ginning up dangerous weather farther east, sending waves crashing over Mississippi beaches, swamping parts of an Alabama island town and spawning a tornado in Florida.
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A church in Mississippi was destroyed by a suspected arson fire, about a month after its pastor filed a lawsuit challenging the city of Holly Springs on gathering restrictions amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Read moreFollowing a video made by a Mississippi church where its congregation crowded into a nearby Walmart, a federal judge refused to expedite a request to halt the city of Holly Springs’ ban on in-service religious gatherings, calling the church’s actions “highly reckless.”
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Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre is repaying $1.1 million in welfare money he received for multiple speeches where he did not show up, the Mississippi state auditor said Wednesday.
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The Justice Department took the rare step on Tuesday of weighing in on the side of a Mississippi Christian church where local officials had tried to stop Holy Week services broadcast to congregants sitting in their cars in the parking lot.
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An attorney for a Mississippi man sentenced to 12 years for possessing a cellphone in jail said Friday he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case, after the state’s high court refused to reconsider the punishment.
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President Donald Trump on Monday announced plans to nominate a Mississippi Court of Appeals judge who previously served as a Republican state lawmaker to a long-vacant seat on the Fifth Circuit.
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