The Latest Breaking News from Mississippi

The federal government filed a proposal Tuesday to appoint a third-party manager for the troubled water system in Mississippi’s capital city, which nearly collapsed in late summer

Some "strong tornadoes" are possible, particularly in Mississippi, the NWS warns.

The former NFL quarterback said last month that he did not know that the money he received was designated for welfare recipients.

A federal judge will decide whether to block Mississippi from using three drugs when it puts inmates to death

Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is asking to be removed from a civil lawsuit by the state of Mississippi that seeks to recover millions of dollars in misspent welfare money that was intended to help some of the poorest people in the U.S. An attorney for Favre filed papers Monday…

‘The company has been forced to make the difficult decision to terminate the employment of all its employees,’ United Furniture Industries says in message to staff

Two juveniles in Jackson, Mississippi, have been charged with murder and an adult is charged with accessory after Markell Noah was found dead

Workers at Mississippi-based furniture company received text saying they were terminated just before midnight on 21 November

JACKSON, Miss. — Two years ago, after an emergency cesarean section at a Mississippi hospital, Sherika Trader was denied a tubal ligation. Trader, now 33, was told that to have her tubes tied, she had to have a second child or a husband’s permission, even though she wasn’t married.

I remember the day we were filming "Southern Gardening" as part of my duties with Mississippi State University. Friend and garden designer Lori Hitchcock presented an urn for the front porch of the historical home in Kosciusko, Mississippi. It was all decked out for the holidays with red cyclamen, holly…

A father and son have been indicted by a grand jury after allegedly chasing and shooting at a FedEx driver in January after he dropped off a package in a Mississippi city