Long-time cotton planter James O. Eastland puffed on a bulging cigar in the U.S. Senate dining hall in Washington, D.C., during dinner one evening, or as the balding 73-year-old senator called it ...

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" reads a sign sitting on former Gov. William Winter's office desk. He keeps it there as a reminder and points to it when asked about the full ...

JACKSON — At one point, Terun Moore was supposed to be in prison for the rest of his life for killing a Detroit man during an attempted robbery in Hico Lake Park in Jackson. Moore was 17 then ...

Officials in Jackson and across Mississippi are canceling or delaying major events and gatherings in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The following is a list of cancelled events as the ...

The tears kept rolling down the face of Shaneika Green, 42, as she spoke to the Jackson Free Press in her house on Colebrook Avenue in Jackson on April 30. She was talking about the July 17, 2020 ...

The news that former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker had resigned his post as Donald Trump’s volunteer envoy to Ukraine Friday night, first reported by Arizona State University student ...

JACKSON — Anna Wilson sat on her porch in the fading afternoon sun, lording over the 10-foot-tall piles of debris in the lot across from her house.Her lawn, immaculately cut, heavily decorated ...

JACKSON, Miss. — U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith attended and graduated from a segregation academy that was set up so that white parents could avoid having to send their children to schools with ...

Prince Charles spotted a stranger in Buckingham Palace. He walked over to the man, whose well-groomed silvery-white coif, blue eyes, pink nose and dark navy pin-striped suit matched the tiny ...

The first day of trial began with the process that ultimately failed to ensure a proper ending to the trial itself: jury selection. The State dropped charges against Assistant District Attorney ...

If you struggle to pay your bills and don't know where your next meal is coming from, studies show you are more likely to be incarcerated. Once you fall into that cycle, it's difficult to break out.

JACKSON — As a student at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves participated in a fraternity known for blackface, racial epithets and Confederate dances, a Jackson Free ...