The Latest Breaking News from Mississippi

Rescuers combed through rubble on Saturday after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi overnight, killing at least 25 people there and another in Alabama, leveling dozens of buildings and spawning at least one devastating tornado. The White House announced on Sunday that Joe Biden had ordered federal aid be provided…

The death toll is expected to rise as search and rescue efforts continue across storm-stricken areas.

Powerful tornadoes tore through parts of the Deep South on Friday night, killing at least 23 people in Mississippi, obliterating dozens of buildings and leaving an especially devastating mark on a rural town whose mayor declared, "My city is gone." The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said in a Twitter post…

State supreme courts issued 142 opinions between March 13-19. The Hawaii Supreme Court led the field with 25 opinions issued, followed by Delaware with 10 and Mississippi, North Dakota, and Ohio with eight.

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill to set tighter restrictions on who can gather other people’s absentee ballots

The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. lives just outside Justice.

One Black lawmaker and nine white ones have been chosen to work on final versions of bills that could expand the territory of a state-run police department inside Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city

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The US state of Mississippi is facing a growing outbreak of the fungus