Mississippi

Jackson's Deputy Police Chief Deric Hearn identified the boy as Markell Noah.

Nearly the entire workforce of the Mississippi-based company got a memo informing them not to come to work the next day.

Authorities in said Jenise Bolin asked to be tagged on Facebook while he was being arrested.

Video footage showed one of the former Mississippi daycare employees wearing a mask similar to the "Scream" movies and yelling at children who didn't "clean up" or "act good."

Governor Tate Reeves said progress was being made on the city’s water crisis.

“As soon as I saw it, I didn’t give it a thought. I just told my husband, I said, ‘We need to bring some water.'"

The water crisis affects the city's 150,000 residents — many of whom were unable to take showers or flush toilets — plus an estimated 30,000 who come into the city to work at businesses without water pressure.

Parts of Jackson were without running water Tuesday because flooding exacerbated longstanding problems in one of two water-treatment plants.

A military veteran pleaded guilty to faking his own death to try to avoid sexual abuse charges in Mississippi.

A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and a newly revealed memoir by the woman, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Melioidosis, or Whitmore’s disease, can cause a variety of symptoms and can infect any organ, including the brain.

The 25-year-old couldn’t imagine going through life without his mother. So he did what he could to help her live longer.

This is the second time the home belonging to the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” opened up to bidders — but there’s one big catch.

A team searching a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping.

"This is the first time in my 18 years I have ever seen anything so brazen and so vile," prosecutors said.

A law enforcement officer shot and killed one of the people suspected of firing the shots at a festival in Mississippi that left 1 dead and several injured.

No place has had to defend against tornados as much as Mississippi this year. There have already been 87 tornado reports in the state -- more than Texas despite being 1/6th the size,

"We, the counselors of Southaven Middle School, would like to have an opportunity to offer some healthy literature to your daughter on maintaining a positive body image," the letter read. "We are also providing girls with shapewear, bras and other health products if applicable."

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