JUNE 17, 1775 Peter Salem became a hero in the American Revolution. He had been born into slavery in Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1750 and was freed...
FLOWOOD — As hospitals around the state continue to bleed out critical health care services, Mississippi’s two leading candidates for governor shared different visions with the...
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians has joined the celebration of a victory handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a 1978 law that...
Ray Morgigno will serve as the next interim state superintendent of education in Mississippi. Credit: Mississippi Department of Education The Mississippi State Board of Education named...
The CEOs of two of the state’s largest hospital systems are resigning. Scott Kashman, head of St. Dominic Memorial Hospital in Jackson, and Tiffany Murdock, head...
Nearly a month after an Indianola police officer was accused of shooting an 11-year-old boy in the chest, the officer will continue his suspension from the...
John Damon, chief executive officer of Canopy Children’s Solutions, talks about Canopy’s annual Children’s Mental Health Summit, a two-day event, Friday, May 12, 2023, at the...
The Mississippi Today politics team is working to get you the information you need to vote in the November election. But they can’t do it without...
A new Mississippi Today/Siena College poll shows one-of-every-five likely Republican primary voters would vote for Democrat Brandon Presley over incumbent Republican Gov. Tate Reeves in the...
A new national report on child well-being ranks Mississippi 32nd in the nation for education, the only measure in which the state’s rank has meaningfully improved...