Al Rankins Jr. has been Mississippi’s higher education commissioner since 2018. His new contract ends in 2030.

Curtis Flowers, 56, who spent over 20 years on death row, was found dead Wednesday at his family home in Winona.

Nell Grace restaurant in Jackson’s historic Farish Street District serves comfort food, cocktails and live music.

Hurricane Isaias has made landfall, coming ashore Friday near Destin, Florida, as a Category 2 storm, according to the ...

Qingfang Pang, a 6-foot-9 basketball player from China on Mississippi Valley State University’s Delta Devils team, is in ICE custody for overstaying his visa.

An ICE detention facility in Mississippi recently began placing three people in cells designed for two. A conservative ...

I cover criminal justice, courts, and legal issues in Mississippi. My reporting examines how systems operate and the real-world impacts they have on people — from those who are incarcerated or ...

Priest urges Mississippi to repeal nitrogen hypoxia as a form of execution after witnessing a death row inmate suffocate for 19 minutes before dying. The United Nations’ historic resolution ...

Ordinary people have a central role to play in demanding reasonable regulation of artificial intelligence, technology journalist Kara Swisher said.

Isaias was forecast to intensify rapidly and bring strong winds and a life-threatening storm surge to the Florida Panhandle, ...

John Grisham, the author of more than 50 consecutive No. 1 bestsellers including two works of nonfiction, was the keynote ...

Any suspension of the federal gasoline tax would require an act of Congress, and a president cannot unilaterally suspend the ...