Mississippi

Thanks to a group of fourth-graders, Mississippi now has a state fruit. Find out what they chose.

The state of Mississippi has picked a state fruit.

A former pro wrestler has pleaded guilty to a federal charge tied to misspending of welfare money that was supposed to help needy families in Mississippi, one of the poorest states in the U.S.

Six people were killed after a series of shootings in Mississippi

The number of babies in Mississippi being treated for congenital syphilis has jumped by more than 900% over five years.

A Mississippi man has been put to death by lethal injection for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl more than two decades ago.

An argument between two men over a golf game led one golfer to bite the nose of the other in the parking lot of a casino, police said.

The severe weather wrecked numerous homes, destroyed a fire station, ripped the roof off an apartment complex and killed two people when a tree crunched their mobile home

A 12-year-old boy is dead after playing Russian Roulette in Jackson, Mississippi. Police identified the boy as Markell Noah, WLBT-TV reports. Officers arrested two juveniles and one adult Friday after the death. Police say the two juveniles are being charged with murder and the adult is being charged with accessory after the fact of murder. The investigation is ongoing.

D’Monterrio Gibson has said he believes he was pursued and shot at because he is Black and because the duo thought he didn’t belong in their neighborhood.

Authorities in Mississippi’s capital city are on the hunt for a suspected arsonist who set several fires on and near the campus of a public historically Black college.

White men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager over accusations he had flirted with a white woman in a country store.

Authorities say five people linked to viral video footage of workers using a scary mask to frighten children at a Mississippi daycare are now facing charges.

New court documents show retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre texted the Mississippi governor in 2019 to ask about getting money from the state’s welfare agency to build an indoor practice facility for the University of Southern Mississippi’s football team

Newly revealed text messages show how deeply a Mississippi governor was involved in the state paying more than $1 million in welfare money to Brett Favre to help pay for one of the retired NFL quarterback’s pet projects.

Writer Jeff Pearlman is keeping his distance from a 2016 Brett Favre book he wrote after text messages revealed that former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant helped the QB obtain welfare funds to build a volleyball stadium at the University of Southern Mississippi.

A pilot circled north Mississippi with a stolen airplane and threatened to crash into a Walmart according to police

Authorities say a man who stole a plane and flew it over Mississippi after threatening to crash it into a Walmart store faces charges of grand larceny and terroristic threats. Tupelo Police Chief John Quaka says 29-year-old Cory Wayne Patterson didn’t have a pilot’s license but had some flight instruction and was an employee of Tupelo Aviation. Patterson could also...

The White House says the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency will visit Mississippi’s capital city on Friday as local, state and federal officials deal with a water system crisis. Flooding early in the week exacerbated problems with Jackson’s long-troubled water system. The whole city was affected at one time or another by low pressure and many remain without...

People continued to wait in lines at distribution sites and flooded stores for water to drink, bathe, cook and flush toilets Wednesday in Mississippi’s capital amid the failure of the city water system.