Whether by luck or simple coincidence or divine inspiration, Governor Alcorn signed the education legislation into law on July 4, 1870.

Finance leaders, mayors of several major Deep South cities and others will attend DELTA FEST conference in Jackson this week, which planners are calling an “economic activation festival” to map a ...

Ex-Division II star suddenly a part of Ole Miss plan. Mississippi State eyes 4-0 start. Southern Miss wins back-to-back. As week four of the college football season arrives, things have gone as well ...

Robert St. John says food is the excuse. The table is where it happens. And the friendships—old and new—are the true feast.

Downtown Jackson is set to host the prestigious National Folk Festival from November 7-9, bringing over 300 traditional performers to Mississippi's capital city. The three-day event will feature six ...

Ozzie Lampkin Coghlan, 96, of Holly Bluff, MS passed away in her home on Friday, September 12, 2025 surrounded by family.

Charles Ray Crawford was convicted of kidnapping and killing a 20-year-old woman in the early 1990s. After more than 30 years on death row, Charles Ray Crawford is will be executed in Mississippi on ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has set the execution of a man who kidnapped and murdered a 20-year-old community college student in north Mississippi 30 years ago.

The Mississippi State University Alumni Association is honoring a new class of distinguished Bulldogs as 2025 Alumni Fellows ...

The Yazoo County Soil and Water Conservation District, a member of the Mississippi Association of Conservation Districts ...

DSU said all classes and events have been cancelled for the day as authorities conduct an investigation. Delta State University released a statement Monday morning around 9 a.m. stating that a dead ...

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