GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) Video and dash camera footage provided by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety shows a Black teenager holding a gun when he was fatally shot by police last year in an encounter in a store parking lot.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday it is investigating possible civil rights violations by a Mississippi sheriff’s department after a drug raid last month left a Black man with a bullet wound to the face.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The Republican-controlled Mississippi House on Tuesday passed a bill to create a new court district in part of the capital city of Jackson with judges who would be appointed rather than elected.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi legislators have narrowed down the list of issues they will consider with two months remaining in their three-month session. Tuesday was the session's first major deadline, with House and Senate committees passing or killing general bills filed in their own chamber.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi is seeing higher wages, an increase in the high school graduation rate and an “economic boom” that has led to a $4 billion surplus in the state budget, Republican Gov.