The Latest Breaking News from Hinds County

The county election officials under whose watch ballot shortages hampered voting in Mississippi’s largest county said technical mishaps and insufficient training were to blame for election day chaos in November

Voting rights groups say election officials in Mississippi’s largest county have failed to provide enough information about the problems that led to polling precincts running out of ballots

The Justice Department says a new Mississippi law discriminates against residents of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson

The Mississippi Supreme Court is weighing arguments about a state law that has sparked a monthslong dispute over whether white state officials are stomping on local self-governance in the state’s majority-Black capital city, Jackson

A federal judge has extended his order temporarily stopping the Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice from appointing judges in the the capital city of Jackson and Hinds County — both of which are majority-Black

Four inmates who escaped Raymond Detention Center in Mississippi are thought to have escaped through the ceiling to the roof where Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said police believe "they possibly camped out on the roof"

The mother of a 25-year-old Black man who was shot to death by Mississippi Capitol Police last year is telling state lawmakers that she strongly opposes giving the state-run police department wider territory to patrol inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson

Mississippi’s largest county has won a legal victory in its effort to stave off a rare federal takeover of a jail

Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said the incident occurred at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds, which is hosting the Mississippi Mudbug Festival