1874: Patrick F. Healy becomes first Black president of a predominately white university

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.

Fitch: Mississippi is forming task force to help Trump's 'war on fraud'

This is part of a "war on fraud" that President Donald Trump announced earlier this year, which included the creation of a new anti-fraud division in the DOJ and a "fraud czar" position that the administration at one point said would be run out of the White House.

Money does grow on (family) tree, as daughter explains how her father lived vastly different life than racist grandfather, Gov. Vardaman

Writer honors her father, Jim Money Vardaman, the grandson of a racist governor. Her father was a war hero, forestry science pioneer and visionary birdwatcher.