The Latest Breaking News from Mississippi

While a new report highlights Mississippi's jailing of mentally ill people, the practice is common nationwide.

A boil-water notice has been lifted in Mississippi’s capital city after nearly seven weeks

Three Iranians have been charged with trying to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from organizations in the United States, Europe, Iran and Israel, including a domestic violence shelter, by hacking in to their computer systems, US officials said on Wednesday. Other targets included local US governments, regional utilities in…

New court documents show the Mississippi governor in 2017 knew of a plan for a nonprofit group to pay Brett Favre more than $1 million in welfare grant money so the retired NFL quarterback could help fund a volleyball facility

An independent watchdog in the Environmental Protection Agency says it is investigating the troubled water system in Mississippi’s capital

A boil water notice remains in majority-Black city and a long-term solution remains elusive

Seven states have tax policies on the books that could require them to treat student loans canceled by the federal government as taxable income.

The notion of states as "laboratories of democracy" is generally credited to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.

The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says he wants Mississippi’s capital city to receive “its fair share” of federal money to repair a troubled water system