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Guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency distributing the grant, say states receiving the federal funding must begin doula reimbursement by the end of 2027.
A Dec. 1 runoff will decide who will lead the Hinds County District Attorney's Office. Darla Palmer and Gwen Agho fended off three others during Tuesday's special election to advance to the vote off.
Jackson voters soundly rejected a ballot measure on Tuesday that would have boosted taxes on restaurant checks and hotel bills, dealing a financial blow to the city’s tourism agency that had counted on tax proceeds to bridge a sizable gap in its budget.
Democrats have retaken control of the U.S. Senate, delivering a decisive rebuke of Republican control of governance in Washington and ushering in a new era of congressional resistance to President Donald Trump.
Mississippi's midterm Senate election remained too close to call early Wednesday as Democrats across the country swept control of Congress.
Mississippi's four U.S. representatives, three Republicans and one Democrat, easily defeated challengers on Tuesday.
Federal authorities have charged a civil rights activist with arson in a fire that damaged the Senatobia Police Department headquarters. Court filings show that officers tracked 41-year-old Garrick Rawls to a relative’s house in north Alabama using surveillance video, community tips and his cellphone signal.
Evidence that was key to King Young Brown Jr.'s appeal has not been recovered. To resolve the situation, a judge suspended the remaining half of Brown's 50-year sentence.
A new set of records mistakenly released to a local news outlet by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation provides the most detailed look yet at how the agency investigated the police shooting death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in a Walmart parking lot this summer.
The secretary of state's office on Tuesday said that its elections hotline had seen a high volume of calls and reports of late-opening precincts, voting machines being temporarily down and issues with voters verifying their registration status.
Follow live election results with Mississippi Today as Magnolia State voters help determine the balance of power in Congress.
Entergy executive: "New revenues from Mississippi data centers, like Amazon’s, are a primary reason why (electrical) rates didn’t go up" and remains below the national average.
Candles glowed Monday evening at Jackson State University as students and faculty remembered one of their own, one of two college students killed by gunfire at a Jackson nightclub over the weekend.
At the end of June 2026, Hinds County’s jails had 131 people waiting more than six months without a charging decision from a prosecutor, including 56 who had been held over a year, an analysis by The Marshall Project found.
Best-selling author Adam Makos's riveting new book is about Operation Tidal Wave during World War II. Those involved received five Medals of Honor, 56 Distinguished Service Crosses and more than 1,700 Distinguished Flying Crosses
Readers can follow Mississippi election results live on Tuesday night at mississippitoday.org, and track the balance of power in Congress.
Follow the results of the Mississippi midterm elections, and the balance of power in Congress.
A Mississippi Today analysis of voter data from the secretary of state found that in the eight months since the March primaries, inactivations more than doubled in some jurisdictions, leaving up to 1 in 5 voters in counties such as DeSoto and Wilkinson one step closer to being purged from the rolls.
The parents of a 1-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a police officer in Mississippi led a protest Monday at the office of the state's attorney general, who ruled last month that the shooting was justified.
Mississippi’s prison healthcare provider has not met the requirements of its contract, according a report published Monday by the state’s legislative watchdog committee.
A federal judge has denied Elon Musk-owned SpaceXAI’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the NAACP over its use of gas turbines to power data centers in Southaven and Memphis. The lawsuit alleges that the artificial intelligence company’s turbines require a state air permit from the Mississippi Environmental…
Mississippi voters head to the polls Tuesday for a U.S. Senate midterm race that has drawn national attention in the struggle for control of Congress.
An unusual collaboration between prosecutors and public defenders to release unindicted jail detainees exposed deeper failures in Hinds County’s criminal justice system.
Proponents of school choice policies say a new federal tax credit program is a win for the state. Opponents say it undermines Mississippi voters' rejection of school choice.
Marshall Ramsey's editorial cartoon depicts Donald Trump's giant shadow over a voter at a ballot box. The voter says, "He's not on the ballot... However."
In Mississippi, a U.S. Senate race tops the midterm ticket, which includes contested general elections for all four of the state’s U.S. House districts.
Creatures of all shapes and sizes and icons from the past, present and future put aside their differences to gather under an overcast sky for the Belhaven Boo, the Jackson's neighborhood’s annual Halloween fair Saturday.
Authorities say an arson damaged the Senatobia Police Department building early Saturday. The department has drawn protests after an officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in June. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and local agencies are investigating the fire.
A march for justice for Nolan Wells took place Sunday on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, drawing protesters from the area as well as from New Orleans, Atlanta, Chicago and other places.
Fearmongering about transgender people this midterm election cycle should not be surprising. It is a tactic as old as the country for politicians to use fear of minorities to further their own electoral goals.
The population of eastern whip-poor-wills, nocturnal birds in the nightjar family that can be spotted the Mississippi River Basin between April and September, has sharply declined.
'I don’t believe we need a senator to explain the existence of chicken,' Clinton said, panning Hyde-Smith's response to high beef prices.
Jackson State University is eliminating eight positions amid restrictions on federal funding.
Jackson is one of four cities the Trump administration has chosen for its Model Cities Initiative grant program.
High school senior and Clinton resident Jeremy Burwell is on track to go from being a fan of comics to starring in his own in national Stan Lee Super Kid contest.
Jackson Environmental Court Judge Jeffery Reynolds issued ordered the owner of the Grand Chateau apartment complex to serve nearly two years in jail.
It is clear that sending ICE or FBI agents to the polls for Tuesday's midterm election would be flatly illegal, voting rights advocates argue.
There are no immediate plans to merge Mississippi's public colleges, but lawmakers still are discussing the possibilities.
Talks of consolidating the school districts in Washington County capture a key challenge of forced mergers: requiring a well-performing district to absorb a struggling one — and all of its debt and other baggage.
Jackson lawyers are split on who should be the next Hinds County District Attorney, according to campaign finance reports.
September 2026 BLS unemployment figures showed the number of jobs in Mississippi held relatively steady, dropping by about 700 jobs compared to August, mirroring the national “no-hire, no-fire” environment.
After having a 1961 bus trek through the Deep South interrupted by firebombing, civil rights activists ended their trip in New Orleans — fulfilling a legacy of activism.
Over 200 pages of Snapchat messages pulled from the cellphone of Nolan Xavier Wells have only fueled questions surrounding what led to his death on Horn Island. The forensic phone extraction by Garrett Discovery covers messages sent within nearly 30 group chats between July 4 and July 26. The 18-year-old and his…
The West Bolivar School District struggles with issues including leadership turnover, low accountability grades and an investigation by the state Department of Education. Do those problems stem from a previous district consolidation?
The Interconnecting Gulfport project will build an overpass west of U.S. Highway 49 to provide another way across Interstate 10 and impact 98.3 acres of wetland.
Data centers are facing increasing pushback from residents in Mississippi and across the country as companies are rushing to meet the expected artificial intelligence demand for computing power.
Qingfang Pang of China had been a late recruit for Mississippi Valley State University's basketball team and only on campus for a day when ICE detained him on an expired visa.
The former Democratic president's trip to Mississippi will be the latest in a string of appearances by national figures hoping to turn out voters in the state's heated Senate race between Colom and incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
The 2015 consolidation of Starkville and Oktibbeha County school districts is considered a success, but it was costly for Black communities.
Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg campaigned on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for Democrat Scott Colom, who is trying to unseat Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Southern Miss plans to renovate the 42-year-old home of its nationally renowned baseball program, the only Division I program in the U.S. to boast 10 straight 40-victory seasons and 10 straight NCAA Tournament bids.
A Mississippi Today analysis of video captured the day a Senatobia police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley highlights key points of the encounter and shows how it escalated.
The lawsuit claims that the prices customers see on items on shelves and in advertisements are not what gets rung up at the register when they pay.
Mississippi State University is expanding on-campus housing for upperclassmen.
Here’s a simple message for our fellow Jewish voters in advance of upcoming midterm election: demand better than what we’re getting now from both parties, advocates write.
Jackson is among the most challenging cities in the United States if you’re living with asthma and has some of the highest rates of asthma-related deaths, says a 2026 report from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Among the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States, Jackson ranks third in…
Voters with a qualifying excuse can vote absentee in person at their circuit clerk’s office until noon Saturday, Oct. 31. Mail-in absentee ballots must be postmarked by Election Day, Nov. 3, and received within five business days, by Nov. 10.
State lawmakers plan to take up school district consolidation in the next session. Residents of the communities likely to be affected are concerned.
State lawmakers want to reduce the number of Mississippi's public school districts. Get answers to key questions about school district consolidation.
Democrats have grown hopeful that their U.S. Senate nominee in Mississippi, Scott Colom, might flip a seat in what has been a Republican stronghold.
SR1 College Preparatory and STEM Academy can no longer operate as a charter school after Dec. 31.
Jackson is a finalist for a federal policing grant that could pump as much as $125 million to the city's cash-strapped police department.
Hinds County Circuit Judge Faye Peterson ruled the attorney general’s office was showing a “bias” for law enforcement in declining to prosecute the manslaughter case against former Capitol Police officer Michael Lamar Rhinewalt.
This is a crazy season of college football, with Team B beating Team B, then B beating C and C beating A. Make it make sense.
Marshall Ramsey's editorial cartoon depicts a person in a full-body cast in a hospital bed, with a prescription for Medicaid expansion. Gov. Tate Reeves holds a bag labeled "Rural Hospital Fund" and says: "Rejoice! I brought you a butterfly bandage and an aspirin!"
It would take a significant hike in the sales tax to offset cities’ and counties’ loss of the homestead property tax revenue, resulting in Mississippians facing higher prices at retail establishments.
Phil Proctor, a Lucedale native, was chosen to create two sculptures for the Ocean Springs Gateway Sculpture Project inspired by Walter Anderson’s artwork.
Immigrants who enter the United States without appointments with immigration officials can be detained indefinitely and are not entitled to bond hearings, regardless of how long they have lived in the country, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
Fitch’s threat is the latest salvo between Colom’s campaign and the state GOP in a race that has generated national attention and millions of dollars from national party interests leading up to the Nov. 3 election.
In the years after the 2010 BP oil spill, the number of fish in the deeper parts of the Gulf of Mexico dramatically declined. According to a major multi-year study published Monday, fish populations dropped by about 60%, while krill that whales and others eat plummeted 72%. Researchers said there’s no other cause they…
A state law that bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs in Mississippi K-12 schools and colleges can now be enforced.
In 2025, an infant mortality report showed Mississippi’s infant mortality rate rose from 8.9 in 2023 to 9.7 in 2024 – nearly twice the national average.
The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame announced its 2027 class on Thursday, the most diverse group of inductees in the history of the Magnolia State sports shrine.
Former Vice President Harris campaigns for Democrat Colom in Columbus just days before President Donald Trump is scheduled to campaign in Corinth for Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Multiple experts who reviewed video footage of the police shooting in Senatobia said officers unnecessarily escalated the encounter and put themselves in harm's way in the moments before one of them fired into a car, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center broke ground Thursday on a cancer center officials say will help improve outcomes for patients in a state with some of the nation’s highest cancer mortality rates.
The family of Kohen Wiley, the 1-year-old boy fatally shot by the Senatobia police this summer, gathered with state officials Thursday to view unredacted footage of the confrontation, two days after leaked clips were published by a local news outlet and widely circulated on social media.
About 80% of defendants in Mississippi require a public defender, yet it's one of just five states that lack a statewide public defender system, filmmaker writes.
Racist politics and policy-making have prevented advancements in many areas, from education to labor unions, Heather McGhee said during a discussion of her book, "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together."
A few state lawmakers plan to introduce bills next year that would ban kratom sales in Mississippi.
State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney will lead the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials for a one-year term while continuing to lead the Mississippi State Department of Health.
The show’s run through Nov. 1 is the culmination of a goal set years back.
Gov. Tate Reeves on Wednesday awarded $32 million for healthcare workforce development and psychiatric emergency services as a part of a federal program to improve rural healthcare.
Mississippi officials Wednesday celebrated plans to build a $114 million Civil War museum and visitor center next to Vicksburg National Military Park, one day after President Donald Trump signed legislation that will help with the development.
As funding challenges persist, Mississippi health officials may cut clinical services at more county health departments.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU of Mississippi are representing Lexington resident Terrance Gypson, who alleges police threw him to the ground and arrested him without probable cause because he was taking a video of them.
President Donald Trump will visit Mississippi next week to campaign for U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on Monday night at the Crossroads Arena in Corinth, multiple sources familiar with the situation have told Mississippi Today.
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration can intervene in the NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI, but blocked the federal government’s attempt to dismiss the case.
The receiver who oversees the troubled Hinds County jail says county officials are giving him too little information and too little money. An attorney for the county says the receiver should be clearer in communication about spending.
Leland has marked a year since a homecoming block party in the heart of downtown erupted in gunfire, claiming the lives of eight people and leaving grieving families and the community to process the tragedy. Families of the victims and residents returned to Main and Fourth Streets on the Oct. 11 anniversary of the…
Newly released video shows the chaotic moments before a Mississippi police officer fired into a car outside a Senatobia Walmart in June, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.
Some national pundits and prognosticators say races in deep-red states including Mississippi are becoming more in play as Trumps approval ratings tank and consumer prices continue to rise.
Relations between the U.S. and Ukraine appear to be at a new low, threatening to tip the balance of the war to Russia's favor and imperil America's security interests across the globe.
"What happens in Mississippi does not stay contained behind a state line; it ripples throughout the rest of the country. The case for staying in this cultural wellspring is easily made," intern writes.
A state lawmaker pleaded with members of the Jackson City Council to sell city-owned swampland along the Pearl River so a riverfront casino resort in Mississippi’s capital can move forward.
Two artists have built over 400 temporary glass sculptures in the Mississippi River Basin, highlighting hidden connections between its rivers and streams.
Despite growing evidence that midwife-led birth centers improve outcomes for mothers and infants, Mississippi remains one of 10 states with no centers. Mississippi is also among the states with the fewest midwives per births in the nation, according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund, a non-profit research…
In April of 2026, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced an 11-count federal indictment against the SPLC in the Middle District of Alabama.
Many details of the fatal shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in Senatobia remain unknown, and it wasn’t immediately clear if or when law enforcement would release footage from the incident.
The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a settlement forcing reforms at the Lexington Police Department, which the DOJ found discriminated against Black people, used excessive force and retaliated against critics. The settlement announced Friday comes after a scathing 2024 DOJ report said the Lexington Police…