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One year later, new divorce law helps more than 600 abuse survivors find a...
One year after the Legislature passed a bill expanding the ability of spouses to cite domestic abuse as grounds for divorce, advocates say the law has helped hundreds of people get out of abusive...
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Evans says he will work for whole district, Guest touts conservative values
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi TodayU.S. House District 3 Democratic candidate Michael Ted Evans speaks during the Neshoba County Fair Wednesday, August 1, 2018. NESHOBA COUNTY FAIR – State Rep. Mike...
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Jim Gallagher, Jr. remembers his pal, ‘Leaky’
Larry Kolvoord / Austin American-Statesman / APBruce Lietzke, the fun-loving, fade-hitting PGA Tour winner whose practice regime — or lack of one — spawned an often-told spoiled banana story, died...
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Democratic candidate’s comments about Mexican immigrants causes firestorm
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi TodayGovernor Phil Bryant gives a speech during the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia Thursday, August 2, 2018. Gov. Phil Bryant accused the media of “a double standard”...
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Fact check: Tate Reeves and Jim Hood Neshoba fair speeches
Attorney General Jim Hood and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves delivered fiery Neshoba County Fair speeches last week, which included facts and figures they claimed supported their platforms. Reeves and Hood are...
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Fact check: U.S. Senate candidates at the Neshoba County Fair
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi TodayAudience members hold signs as they listen to speeches during the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss. Thursday, August 2, 2018. Mississippi is in the rare...
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Campaign seeks equity for Mississippi’s black women, who earn 56 cents for...
Is Mississippi shortchanging women? The answer is a resounding yes, according to a new report, released Tuesday in conjunction with Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. The campaign raises awareness of how...
View ArticleState tax collections solid to begin new fiscal year
Revenue collections, which fund most of the basics of operating state government, such as public education, health care and law enforcement, got off to a solid start in July – the first month of the...
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A love of horses and the ‘thrill of driving’ keeps Neshoba harness racers...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi TodayHarness racers compete during the second day of competition at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss. Tuesday, July 31, 2018. After politicians deliver their...
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Potential special session on roads that includes lottery not without pitfalls
If Gov. Phil Bryant does call a special session to try to deal with the state’s growing infrastructure woes, it is likely that he will recommend the lottery as part of the solution. In past statements,...
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Key state Democrats helped pass 2007 law to ban abortions if Roe overturned
If President Donald Trump’s new nominee to the United States Supreme Court leads to the reversal of Roe v. Wade, an existing state law will be triggered prohibiting abortion in most instances in...
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Why Mississippi is the deadliest place to drive a car
Katie Beth WorthyWayne Atkins, who died in September 2017, and his fiancee, Katie Beth Worthy Just before 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 17, Wayne Atkins’ truck veered off a two-lane road on the outskirts of...
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Rebels’ Boykin, SEC touchdown king, dead at 89
Arnold “Showboat” Boykin Arnold L. Boykin, surrounded by his family, died peacefully Thursday at his home in Brandon. He was 89. Football fans of a certain age will remember him better as Showboat...
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A love of horses and the ‘thrill of driving’ keeps Neshoba harness racers...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi TodayHarness racers compete during the second day of competition at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss. Tuesday, July 31, 2018. After politicians deliver their...
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‘Goat Castle’ details tragic, bizarre Natchez murder
Starting in the midst of the Great Depression in the summer of 1932, the nation became obsessed with the Natchez murder of 68-year-old aristocrat Jane Surget Merrill and the people connected with the...
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Rep. Bennie Thompson’s black voter powerbase crucial for Senate Democrats
BOLTON – In the 1960s, Bennie Thompson, a then Tougaloo College political science student, was in the Mississippi Delta trying to register people to vote on behalf of civil rights icon Fannie Lou...
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‘Levon and Kennedy’ visual proof of life after wrongful convictions
Levon and Kennedy: Mississippi Innocence Project, a documentary photo book of two Mississippi men wrongfully convicted for nearly identical murders in Brooksville and their lives post-exoneration, is...
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Trump, a liability to some, seen as a positive by Mississippi GOP campaigns
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant enjoys hanging out with President Donald Trump. “I can’t tell you how much fun it is to be able to go to Washington D.C., now,” the second term Republican governor recently...
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Update: Transportation special session expected to be announced Friday
Rogelio V. Solis, APGov. Phil Bryant Editor’s note: After receiving confirmation from Gov. Phil Bryant’s office, Mississippi Today reported that Bryant would call a special session on Thursday, August...
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DeLisle: The bruised heart of Jesmyn Ward’s literary world
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi TodayA truck passes DeLisle historical marker. DeLisle is the hometown of novelist Jesmyn Ward. Take exit 20 off Interstate 10 or cross three small bridges after leaving...
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