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The University of Mississippi is paying tribute to James Meredith 60 years after integration

The charity — which claims to provide support for disabled children and breast cancer patients — only gave up to $10,000 donations to most beneficiaries

Mississippi’s top law enforcement official said police officers in the capital city of Jackson will not change the way they pursue suspects

Her decision comes while the former NFL quarterback is at the center of a Mississippi welfare fraud case.

As the Mississippi welfare scandal continues to swirl around Favre, a word about the people who need those funds

Nearly every member of my family has ties to Mississippi. During school breaks, we would load up the Aerostar and head out from Detroit, down I-75 south to our grandparents' home in Cruger, a small town nestled somewhere between where Emmett Till's body was found and where Medgar Evers was…

The Democratic mayor of Mississippi's capital is facing a leadership test as the city struggles to consistently produce clean drinking water

Miami (AFP) - Davis Riley and Will Gordon took a one-shot lead after the first round of the PGA Tour's Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Mississippi on Thursday.

Here's what you missed in the first round.

Parts of the Mississippi River are so low from weeks of drought that barge traffic is being limited at the worst possible time — as crop harvests begin

Joyce Chiles presented evidence in the Emmet Till case to a grand jury in 2007