Belzoni News

For me, the only name I could think of was Howard Carter, who made the sensational King Tutankhamen finds.

U.S. District Judge W. Allen Pepper Jr. died Tuesday leaving Cleveland and the Mississippi Delta void of a true Southern gentleman.

Gov. Haley Barbour waves to lawmakers prior to addressing a joint session of the Mississippi Legislature for a final time in House Chambers at the Capitol in Jackson on Wednesday.

These sharecropper shacks are now museum pieces, but poverty is still very much a reality for many in the Mississippi Delta The Mississippi Delta is known as the poorest corner of the poorest state in America.