On Wednesday, November 10, a triple murder occurred in Robinsonville, Mississippi, which attracted widespread attention and angered local residents. The main suspect in this horrific crime is 18-year-old Deonte Carnell Taylor, a local resident from the city of Tunica....
On Tuesday, a corrections officer lost his life in a fatal shooting at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, as reported by prison officials. The incident occurred during a dispute in the facility’s parking lot, involving two on-duty guards. The Lauderdale...
by Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today December 22, 2023 St. Dominic’s Community Health Clinic at Stewpot Community Services in Jackson, Miss., Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. St. Dominic’s Community Health Clinic at Stewpot Community Services in Jackson, Miss.,...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today December 22, 2023 On June 1, 1960, Lyrian Barry-Stallings, a 5-foot-tall Black woman, boarded a Greyhound bus in Columbus to get to St. Louis, Missouri. She vanished, never to be seen at her destination or have further contact with...
Santa Day, one of the most exciting events of the year at Mississippi State Hospital, was held on Tuesday, December 19, 2023. The activities began at Building 71, the Christmas House, at 9:30 a.m. Santa Day was started by James “Jimmy” Stubbs, who was MSH director...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today December 20, 2023 A federal judge will decide whether to approve another injunction to prevent state appointments to a new, separate court system in Jackson set to go into effect in two weeks. U.S. District Court Judge Henry Wingate...