Mississippi News

A 17-year-old from Mississippi who last year helped a young Elkhorn man beat and stomp his father to death has pleaded guilty.

The attorney general's office has withdrawn its suggestion to a federal judge that death row inmate James Billiot be transferred to a state prison in east Mississippi.

The White House said some students from the Mississippi Delta will be among 120 high school students from across the country who will participate in a music workshop on Wednesday in Washington.

Circuit Judge John Gargiulo on Monday sentenced Bryan Mitchell to 15 years day-to-day for having sex with a 15-year-old girl.

Crime prevention takes more than the work of law enforcement officers. Mississippi citizens are also doing their part through a program called Crime Stoppers.

Many believe Thursday's puppy mill bust is proof there is a need for tougher animal cruelty laws in Mississippi.

House Gaming Committee members are swimming upstream as they try to get a proposed Mississippi lottery to a vote by the state House and Senate, their committee chairman said Monday.

It may soon be harder for people in Mississippi to buy drugs that contain Pseudoephedrine, the key ingredient in making meth.

Those traditional yellow school buses might soon be decorated with advertising, if some Mississippi lawmakers get their way.

The Mississippi Senate on Friday reversed itself on a bill to restore $45 million to the K-12 public education budget, instead approving a measure that would give back $28 million to schools struggling with operations after a series of budget cuts.

Anderson's secret room, taken from his compound and stored in the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, is one of the most astounding exhibits in the Walter Anderson Museum.

Phillip Martin, a longtime chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, was remembered Friday as a visionary who lifted the tribe from stifling poverty with casinos and other businesses.

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Colonel Reb, the university's longtime Southern gentleman character, was retired in 2003 because of perceptions that he represented Old South elements from which the university was trying to distance itself.

Prolonged rains from Thursday morning through Thursday evening produced widespread rainfall totals of 1- 4 inches statewide with flooding reported in portions of Central and Southern Mississippi.

Assessing the legacy of former Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Chief Phillip Martin - who was in critical condition at a Jackson hospital at deadline for release of this column - is an exercise that is incomplete without context.

A'dia Mathies scored 21 points, Victoria Dunlap added 18 and No. 20 Kentucky extended its home winning streak to 15 games with an 80-66 win over Mississippi on Thursday night.

The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill that would make it a felony to torture or maim cats or dogs.

Mississippi lawmakers are considering a bill that could have an impact on the long-running capital murder case of a Montgomery County man accused of killing four people at a furniture store nearly 15 years ago.

Palonek reminds Mississippians and others they have 3 years to file their tax returns to make sure they collect refund money owed to them by the IRS.