Mississippi is the state with the highest rate of cervical cancer deaths in the United States. Black women in Mississippi are almost 1.5 times as likely to die of the disease as white women living ...

TERRY, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed while responding to a call outside the state’s capital city of Jackson, authorities said. Deputy Martin Shields ...

"It would give American consumers greater confidence that the imported shrimp they’re eating isn’t contaminated." ...

The first 14 states that restricted abortion after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022 delivered 22,181 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After Mississippi’s lieutenant governor collapsed on the floor of the state Senate Wednesday, he released a statement saying he had been dehydrated. Video from the Senate ...

Mississippi has the highest traffic fatality rate per capita in the United States, a study shows. According to a study done ...

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

Presidents Day is here. Here's what you need to know about the holiday, what's open or closed and whether you can expect to ...

A Mississippi state judge ordered a newspaper to remove an editorial criticizing city officials from its website, a move that ...

The owner of The Clarksdale Press Register said he planned to challenge a judge’s order against an editorial that criticized ...