As storms barrel through state, National Weather Service employees working...
Jason Hoekema, The Brownsville Herald/Associated PressA meteorologist tracking a storm at a National Weather Service office in Texas. Meteorologists and other National Weather Service employees in...
View ArticleAmid Obamacare uncertainty, Mississippi among states with health care...
AP file photoThis image shows last year’s HealthCare.gov web site home page. More Mississippians signed up for health insurance this year through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace than last year....
View ArticleSaints’ Demario Davis: Rags to riches and then some
Margaret Bowles via APNew Orleans Saints outside linebacker Demario Davis (56) of Brandon watches the action during an NFL game against the Carolina Panthers, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, in Charlotte, N.C....
View ArticleGov. Bryant quietly in talks about a Medicaid expansion plan for Mississippi
Rogelio V. Solis, Associated PressGov. Phil Bryant at the Mississippi Summit on Criminal Justice Reform in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. Despite longtime public opposition to the Affordable...
View ArticlePregnant woman who died is the third ‘suspicious’ Madison County jail death...
Lanekia Brown Facebook pageLanekia Brown died in the Madison County Jail after an arrest for drug trafficking on I-55. The death of a pregnant woman in a Madison County jail right before Christmas is...
View Article‘This is our moment’: Tech firm’s Delta move lifts hopes of economic revival...
Aallyah Wright, Mississippi TodayMayor Chuck Espy and city officials present Murali Vullaganti with the key to the city after the announcement of 200 new jobs over two years. CLARKSDALE – Communities...
View ArticleColor the 2018 Mississippi sports year: Maroon
The sports year 2018 was a colorful one. In Mississippi, you could mostly color it maroon. Mississippi State women’s basketball and baseball teams were huge national stories, competing on the highest...
View ArticleJuvenile jail sees new light as new arts center in McComb
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for AmericaPike County’s former youth detention center is seen in McComb Monday, July 16, 2018. Plans are in the work to transform the former detention center...
View ArticleRep. Hughes wastes no time qualifying for lieutenant guv; Hosemann still mum...
State Rep. Jay Hughes – on the first business day of the new year – became one of the first to officially qualify to run for statewide office. This past May, Hughes, a freshman Democrat from Oxford,...
View ArticleReeves launches 2019 governor bid, vows to fight ‘liberal ideas’ of Hood’s...
Rogelio V. Solis / Associated PressFlanked by his wife, Elee Reeves, second from left, daughters Maddie, left, Emma, second from right and Tyler, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves announces his candidacy for...
View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: King of the Hill
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View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: Jay’s Quest
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View ArticleMississippi fans have plenty to cheer as NFL playoffs set to begin
(Ron Jenkins / Associated PressDallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) stands on the sideline late in the second half of an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Arlington, Texas,...
View ArticleBigger than the Dexter meme: How Dear Silas is changing the narrative of...
“That’s the icebreaker right there.” That was Jackson hip-hop artist Dear Silas’ initial thought when he first saw a fan-made version of November’s viral Dexter meme that featured his song “Skrr Skrr,”...
View ArticleWhy Mississippi’s Rep. Bennie Thompson could check Trump’s immigration agenda
J. Scott Applewhite, Associated PressRep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, joins House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., right, at a news...
View ArticleA ‘stain on Mississippi’? Just the opposite – Calvin Huey made our state,...
U.S. Naval AcademyMississippian Calvin Huey catches a pass in the ’65 Army-Navy game. Huey was the first African American to play for Navy. Chances are, you never heard of Pascagoula native Calvin...
View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: And it begins!
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View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: The Moderate Voice
Not sure anyone from 1995 would have seen this coming: Trent Lott, the voice of moderation and reason. The post Marshall Ramsey: The Moderate Voice appeared first on Mississippi Today.
View ArticleOle Miss, far ahead of schedule, runs away from No. 11 Auburn, 82-67
Kevin Langley/CSM via ZUMA Wire) (Cal Sport Media via APOle’ Miss guard, Terence Davis (3), slips through the defense and heads to the hoop during the NCAA basketball game between the Auburn Tigers and...
View ArticleA ‘stain on Mississippi’? Just the opposite – Calvin Huey made our state,...
U.S. Naval AcademyMississippian Calvin Huey catches a pass in the ’65 Army-Navy game. Huey was the first African American to play for Navy. Chances are, you never heard of Pascagoula native Calvin...
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