Council approves Metrocenter mall rezoning despite developer’s years of unpaid property taxes

Mississippi financial literacy mandate increases economic knowledge statewide

Beginning with the 2027-28 school year, Mississippi public schools must provide financial literacy instruction for students in grades 6-8, covering topics such as budgeting and consumer rights.

Book reimagines Emmett Till's life had he lived

In her new book, “If Emmett Till Lived,” best-selling author and historian Sarah Lewis uses essays and photos to imagine what the Black teen's life might have been if he had returned to Chicago.

Feds charge man with making threats in Nolan Xavier Wells' death investigation

Joseph Alfredo Vasquez Dumarce, 27, of Sacramento, California, faces a federal charge of interstate transmission of threatening communication for allegedly sending a bomb and death threat to Jackson County Chancery Judge Ashlee Cole.

'Complete discomfort, little space': ICE detainees in Mississippi complain of crowding as arrests skyrocket

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

State sets dates to retire temporary xAI turbines but allows some to go past original deadline

State environmental officials and xAI have agreed to a schedule to retire the 69 temporary gas generators at the company's Southaven facility.