Lawmakers refused to increase an infamous prison’s funding. Then, chaos erupted Understaffed, underfunded and plagued by gang violence, inmates in Mississippi’s Parchman prison have been living in ...

Nineteen years after a fire nearly destroyed one of Mississippi’s historic antebellum mansions — Arlington — Natchez leaders have decided to take legal action agains the owner of the property. The ...

This past weekend, Magnolia State Live posted an article about reported panther sightings in Mississippi. Since then, there have been nearly 30 more people with panther stories and big cat photos from ...

A new solar farm in the state has the potential to create 200 construction jobs and bring millions of dollars in revenue for one rural Mississippi county and its school system, officials say. WTVA in ...

The widow of Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Ronnie Van Zant placed a red rose at the base of the monument before she helped pull off the beige tarp covering the marker built to honor the six who died in the ...

A Mississippi man has been charged with second-degree murder after he turned himself in to authorities after he reportedly shot a man in the abdomen. Officials with the Itawamba County Sheriff’s ...

A 36-year-old Mississippi truck driver was killed in a crash in Alabama. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency reports that JoColby M. Holder, 36, of Hattiesburg, was killed in a wreck on Alabama 21, 15 ...

The possibility of passenger rail service for Vicksburg took one more step Tuesday with an interlocal agreement between the Board of Mayor and Aldermen and the Warren County Board of Supervisors to ...

Barring a last minute reprieve, the state of Mississippi is set to execute Richard Jordan this evening. Attorneys representing the 79-year-old, the state’s oldest and longest serving inmate on death ...

A Mississippi police officer has been arrested and charged with allegedly stealing multiple firearms from his own department and pawning them for cash. Patrick Harris, who served with the Centreville ...

A Mississippi man has been arrested and charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer. Jimmie Townsend, 34, of Tupelo, was accused of attacking a Pontotoc County Sheriff’s Office deputy during a ...

Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate’s chances of avoiding execution appear very slim after a series of legal setbacks on Tuesday. One day ahead of Richard Gerald Jordan’s scheduled ...