There are many unanswered questions that remain after 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells from Ocean Springs was last seen on the Fourth of July and his body found two days later off Horn Island.

A federal judge on Friday ordered water to be turned back on for five days at a south Jackson apartment complex where the utility company shut it off July 23 because the complex owner has $422,000 of ...

Column: Vernon Dahmer Jr., the son of a voting rights maryr, was, like his father, a patriot.

'When they beg me for supplies because they make them reuse colostomy bags over and over that don’t fit, when they are bowel and bladder incontinent and they don’t provide diapers to them it is hard for me to hear that (MDOC) feels that they provide adequate care.' -- House Corrections Chairwoman Becky Currie

A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after ICE officers took him into custody at a meeting to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, ...

A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of the 20th century died Tuesday. Robert G. Clark's son and successor, state Rep.

Women represent half of the U.S. population. But it’s still rare in some states for female lawmakers to have leading roles in budget matters.

Mississippi no longer leads the nation in childhood vaccines, falling to third place after a judge ordered the state to allow religious exemptions.

The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber thef...

Column: Today, Mississippi officially commemorates both Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. It's beyond time the state stops celebrating Lee, a Confederate who chose treason and human bondage ove...

By Jeff Amy/The Associated Press

A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of civil rights icon James Meredith. He is a Black man who fought white supremacy by integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A photojournalist who captured one of the most enduring images of World War II — the U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese

A judge has declared a mistrial in the killing of a University of Mississippi student who was prominent in the local LGBTQ+ community.

Jurors are deliberating in the trial of a man charged with killing a University of Mississippi student who was well-known in the local LGBTQ+ community.

Police became convinced they were investigating a crime rather than a voluntarily missing person two weeks after a University of Mississippi student disappeared.

Dilan Gohill won an award for his work at the Stanford Daily, but his coverage of campus protests has set university officials against him.

Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who helped build the Republican Party across the South, has died.

The man on trial in the killing of University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee gave conflicting information to police about how well he and Lee knew each other.

State Sen. Jenifer Branning has won a seat on the Mississippi Supreme Court, defeating Justice Jim Kitchens.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The NAACP is ending its lawsuit that challenged a decision by the majority-white and Republican-run Mississippi Legislature to create a new state court in Jackson, the capital ci...

In the final hours before University of Mississippi student Jimmy “Jay” Lee disappeared, sexually explicit Snapchat messages were exchanged between his account and the account of the man now on trial ...

Security cameras captured video of a University of Mississippi student leaving his campus apartment twice on the morning he was last seen alive.

A trial has begun for a man charged in the killing of a University of Mississippi student who was well-known in the local LGBTQ+ community.

To understand the scope of the tragedy of Lisa Marie Presley, and why she couldn’t find her own identity or get out...

After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral has showed its new self to the world Friday.

Amy St. Pe’ has won an open seat on the Mississippi Court of Appeals. State Sen. Jenifer Branning and Justice Jim Kitchens were in a tight race late Tuesday as votes were still being counted in a runo...

The Mississippi attorney general is requesting an execution date for a man who’s been on death row for 30 years.

Mississippi voters will decide winners for one seat on the state Supreme Court and one on the state Court of Appeals.

In a sprawling secondhand clothing market in Ghana’s capital, early morning shoppers jostle as they search through piles of garments, eager to pluck a bargain or a designer find from the stalls sellin...

A federal appeals court says medical marijuana businesses in Mississippi don’t have the right to advertise on billboards or other places because marijuana itself remains illegal under federal law.

Mississippi's practice of removing voting rights for certain felonies is cruel and unusual. That is the argument attorneys are making in a new filing with the U.S.