By Sarah Ulmer U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate temporarily blocked a portion of Senate Bill 2343. The new Mississippi law, which was set to go into effect July 1st, outlines jurisdictional responsibilities for the Capitol Police in Jackson including allowing the...
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today June 30, 2023 The governing board of Mississippi’s public university system announced that Alcorn State University’s interim president is leaving next month to focus on his family. The change, which the Institutions of...
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today June 29, 2023 U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves has dismissed a gun possession case against a man convicted of a felony, citing a Supreme Court precedent he criticized last year and ruling convicted felons have a Second Amendment...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today June 28, 2023 The mother of a man allegedly tortured and shot in the mouth by a Rankin County sheriff’s deputy earlier this year and another mother of a man beaten, tased and killed by deputies in 2021 said the recent firing of...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today June 27, 2023 Rankin County deputies accused of beating and torturing two men earlier this year have been fired, Sheriff Bryan Bailey announced Tuesday. “We understand that the alleged actions of these deputies has eroded the public’s...
by Pam Dankins, Mississippi Today June 26, 2023 Prospect Hill, a preserved, abandoned building hidden deep in the woods of Jefferson County, Mississippi, is a connection to the history of Liberia in West Africa and to the lives of descendant communities of over 300...
