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Supreme Court sides with Gov. Tate Reeves in partial veto fight with speaker
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaThe Mississippi Supreme Court upheld Gov. Tate Reeves’ partial veto of legislation earlier this year providing funds to multiple entities to combat...
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‘One of the greatest Mississippians’: Former Gov. William Winter remembered...
Former Gov. William Winter, right, and Myrlie Evers, activist and wife of the slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, share a joke prior before a news conference on Thursday, June 11, 2015 in Jackson,...
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Governor Winter, our greatest statesman, was passionate about Mississippi sports
Mississippi Department of Archives and HistoryThen-Gov. William Winter makes a presentation to football star Willie Richardson at his induction into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. Gov. William...
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Marshall Ramsey: Governor William Winter
If you pass at 97 and people think you’ve left the world too soon, you’ve lived a powerful and meaningful life. I am grateful I got to spend a little of time with Governor Winter (he wrote the forward...
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The trouble with contact tracing in Mississippi
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaA student walks up the steps of the Ole Miss Student Union Monday, October 7, 2019. What Oxford’s missing COVID-19 cases tell us about contact...
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William Winter, former Mississippi governor who ushered in education reform,...
Rogelio V. Solis, APFormer Gov. William Winter died at age 97. Editor’s note: This obituary was provided to Mississippi Today by the family of Gov. William Winter and was written by longtime family...
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Legislative watchdog highlights problems with controversial School...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For AmericaCenter Hill High School economics teacher Toni Coleman, left, talks with senior Jasmine Ellis after class in Olive Branch on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. A...
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Fitch to ask U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss lawsuit claiming Jim Crow laws...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaRepublican state treasurer Lynn Fitch, a candidate for attorney general, speaks during the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., Thursday,...
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Private school association says they shouldn’t have to report COVID-19...
While the number of COVID-19 cases continues to climb, the Midsouth Association of Independent Schools recently released a statement asserting that its member schools should not have to report their...
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‘They didn’t have to die’: Mississippi sets record for most COVID-19 deaths...
Vickie D. King/Mississippi TodayState Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs offered a bleak outlook Tuesday about the spread of COVID-19 in Mississippi. The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 79...
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Cameroonian immigrants in Adams County prison say they were tortured by ICE...
Smoke rises above the Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, Miss., Sunday, May 20, 2012, during a disturbance at the prison. A guard at the southwest Mississippi prison died Sunday and several...
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Pay for new, mid-career teachers in Mississippi ‘extremely low’ compared to...
Vickie D. King/Mississippi TodayBiology teacher Chiquita Gaylor and students practice social distancing in the classroom at Jefferson County High School in Fayette. A first-year teacher in Mississippi...
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No background checks, misspending and an ‘adults only’ party: State auditor...
Jackie Mader, The Hechinger ReportHolmes County Central High School The state auditor’s office earlier this month uncovered extensive misspending and poor financial management and record keeping in the...
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How a Delta nonprofit and local community colleges are teaming up to provide...
Aallyah Wright, Mississippi TodayThe Career Empowerment Center in Marks, Miss. MARKS — Dennis Washington, an 11-year custodian and bus driver for the Tunica County School District, has long aspired to...
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Lawmakers consider privatizing Mississippi’s dilapidated, underfunded state...
Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and ParksA cabin at Holmes County State Park, which is ‘closed until further notice’ for repairs, according to the state parks website. Mississippi’s parks...
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Auditor Shad White says a professor broke state law. The professor is now...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaState Auditor Shad White attends the Trump campaign rally at the BancorpSouth Arena in Tupelo on Nov. 1, 2019. After state auditor Shad White...
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For many families, Mississippi’s child support enforcement program proves...
For many families, Mississippi’s child support enforcement program proves nonsensical BY ANNA WOLFE | DEC. 30, 2020 Editor’s note: This story is part three of a series examining Mississippi’s child...
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Interactive: How Mississippians voted for 2020 candidates and ballot measures
President Donald Trump, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, medical marijuana, a new state flag, and the end of a Jim Crow-era voting law all prevailed in last month’s election in Mississippi. The secretary of...
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The trouble with contact tracing in Mississippi
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaA student walks up the steps of the Ole Miss Student Union Monday, October 7, 2019. What Oxford’s missing COVID-19 cases tell us about contact...
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Here’s what we know about COVID-19 vaccines in Mississippi
What we know so far about COVID-19 vaccines in Mississippi. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool) Health officials are scrambling to distribute COVID-19 vaccines and inoculate Mississippians according to a...
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