by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today May 12, 2023 A federal judge temporarily blocked the controversial House Bill 1020 from becoming law Friday. U.S. District Court Judge Henry Wingate granted the motion in a lawsuit brought by the NAACP, which would stop Mississippi...
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today May 11, 2023 Gov. Tate Reeves’ reelection campaign is using 2019 video from the now-shuttered New Summit School that was owned by Nancy New, one of the central figures in Mississippi’s massive welfare scandal. New and her son Zach...
May 11, 2023 A Union County judge has dismissed an attempted murder charge against a 24-year-old former Ole Miss student accused of stabbing a Tennessee man in the neck because the victim did not come to court. Four days into the trial of New Albany resident Lane...
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today May 10, 2023 The wave of presidential turnover at Mississippi’s institutions of higher learning has come to Rust College. The state’s oldest historically Black college in Holly Springs announced in a press release Wednesday that Ivy...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today May 10, 2023 The three Jackson women serving as plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the controversial House Bill 1020 testified Wednesday the law would impact their right to elect judges from their community like other residents of...
The director of a Mississippi State University research center will serve as the state scholar for “Crossroads: Change in Rural America.” Leah Kemp—director of the College of Architecture, Art and Design’s Fred Carl Jr. Small Town Center—will support...
