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Stephen Schwerner doesn’t remember how he learned that his younger brother Michael was missing in Mississippi along with colleagues Andrew Goodman and James Chaney.

Financial documents show no sign that Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has fulfilled his pledge to give away campaign donations from people charged with misspending welfare money in the state’s largest public corruption case.

An Associated Press analysis has found that many of this year’s statehouse proposals to restrict gender-affirming care for youths are identical or very similar to some model legislation.

Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana have seen a promising turnaround in their student reading scores after passing a series of similar literacy reforms.

Three residents of Mississippi’s capital city say their rights are undermined by a new state law that would create a court inside Jackson with judges who are appointed.

A Mississippi sheriff says the last of four prisoners who escaped from a prison last month has been found at a home about 20 miles from the prison.

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her in 1955 has died.

A police official says man who escaped from a Mississippi jail and is a suspect in a Monday night killing is believed to have died after barricading himself in a home and setting it on fire during an armed standoff with deputies.

Alabama and Mississippi closed government offices on Monday for Confederate Memorial Day as efforts have stalled to abolish or rename Confederate holidays.

The NAACP warns that “separate and unequal policing” will return to Mississippi’s majority-Black capital under a state-run police department.

A federal judge says Mississippi must join most other states in allowing religious exemptions from vaccinations that are required so children can attend school.

President Joe Biden says he's not going to talk about former President Donald Trump’s New York indictment.

The majority-white and Republican-led Mississippi Legislature is taking final steps to expand the territory of a state-run police department inside Jackson.

A deadly tornado practically destroyed the small town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi and the surrounding areas, killing dozens and leaving a community in need of help.

In a story published March 29, 2023, about the Mississippi Senate voting not to confirm a new state superintendent of education, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the previous superintendent, Carey Wright, had served 13 years.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Rolling Fork, Mississippi, on Friday to meet those impacted by last week’s massive storm that ripped through more than a half-dozen towns.

The town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi was hit be a deadly tornado on Friday that left 26 people dead and others very injured.

A new study says warming will fuel more supercells in the United States and that those storms will move eastward from their current range.

Queen’terica Jones found her mother's lifeless body after a tornado slammed into the rural town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi.

In the video above, meteorologist Jonathan Kegges breaks down the timeline of events of the recent tornadoes that ravaged Mississippi and what people should look for on the radar to help deal with future tornadoes.

Poverty is adding to the challenges of recovering from a massive tornado that pushed through Mississippi.

Many residents in one of the Mississippi towns hit hardest by devastating tornadoes have found solace in their church communities Sunday.

Help began pouring into one of the poorest regions of the U.S. after a deadly tornado tore a path of destruction in Mississippi even as furious new storms struck Georgia.

Residents of rural Mississippi have recounted harrowing tales of survival after a deadly tornado tore through the state Friday night.

With at least 25 people dead in Mississippi, tornadoes that ravaged parts of the Deep South overnight were the deadliest in the state in more than a decade.

Rescuers raced Saturday to search for survivors and help hundreds of people left homeless after a powerful tornado cut a devastating path through Mississippi, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens.

Rescuers raced Saturday to search for survivors and help hundreds of people left homeless after a powerful tornado cut a devastating path through Mississippi, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens.

Madison Scott hit a pair of free throws with 23 seconds left that gave Mississippi the lead for good, Angel Baker scored 13 points, and the Rebels delivered on their declaration to get defensive, stunning top-seeded Stanford 54-49 on Sunday night to reach the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 for the first time in 16 years.

Mississippi on Tuesday introduced new basketball coach Chris Beard, who repeatedly declined to discuss specifics regarding his December domestic violence arrest that led to his eventual firing at Texas.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill that will restrict electric car manufacturers from selling vehicles in person unless they open franchised dealerships.

Mississippi has hired Chris Beard as its basketball coach five weeks after his firing from Texas following a domestic violence arrest.

Amtrak and the Southern Rail Commission say they will apply for federal funds to study passenger rail service between Meridian, Mississippi and Dallas and Fort Worth in Texas.

After years of refusing to expand Medicaid benefits for new mothers, Republican officials in more than a half-dozen states are reversing course.

Laeticia Amihere scored 17 points and Aliyah Boston posted her 80th career double-double to lead No. 1 South Carolina into the SEC Tournament final for the eighth time in nine seasons with an 80-51 victory over Mississippi.

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill to ban gender-affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is doing an abrupt about-face on an issue Democrats have been hammering him on this election year.

Zia Cooke scored five of her 24 points in overtime to help No. 1 South Carolina remain unbeaten with a 64-57 victory over Mississippi.

President Joe Biden is hosting a screening Thursday of the movie “Till,” about the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.

A relative of Emmett Till is suing to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to Till's lynching.

Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre has filed lawsuits accusing the Mississippi state auditor and two national sportscasters of defaming him in public discussions about the misspending of welfare money.

Black lawmakers in Missouri are accusing House Republican leaders of racism after shutting down debate and passing a bill that could strip power from the Black woman elected as the St. Louis prosecutor.

A former University of Mississippi chancellor says Republican Gov. Tate Reeves spoke privately with him years ago about the benefits of expanding Medicaid to people in low-wage jobs.

The first Black woman elected to the Mississippi Legislature 38 years ago says she will not seek another term.

Attorneys hired by Jay-Z and other entertainers have ended two lawsuits they filed on behalf of Mississippi inmates in 2020 over what they called squalid living conditions at the state’s oldest prison.

TikTok will be banned from all Mississippi-issued government devices and the state’s network.

Two agriculture businesses in the Mississippi Delta and some Black farm workers have settled the workers’ lawsuits.

Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin said a Texas Tech player spit on one of his players and possibly used a racial slur Wednesday night in the Texas Bowl.

Former Steele Knights quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. is being called a hero after rescuing a family from a burning home Monday night in Gulfport, Mississippi.

City officials in Jackson, Mississippi, say residents must boil their drinking water due to water lines bursting in the frigid temperatures.

Officials say the water system in Jackson, Mississippi, is experiencing fluctuating pressure impacting residents on Saturday amid frigid temperatures.

The federal government will put $600 million toward repairing the troubled water system in Mississippi’s capital city — a project that the mayor has said could cost billions of dollars.

A storm system that spawned dozens of reported tornadoes from east Texas to the Florida Panhandle was all but done with the South on Thursday after killing at least three people and uprooting families across Louisiana, where some homes were blown into pieces.

Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach is listed in critical condition at a hospital in Jackson.

A Mississippi man who burned a cross in his front yard to intimidate his Black neighbors has pleaded guilty in federal court to a hate crime.

The U.S. Justice Department has received a federal judge’s approval to carry out its proposal to improve the precarious water system in Mississippi’s capital city.

A twister roaring out of the early morning darkness ripped through a small Alabama community, killing two during an outbreak of tornadoes in the South.

The Justice Department is making a rare intervention to try to bring improvements in the beleaguered water system in the Mississippi capital city.

Residents in several towns across Louisiana and Mississippi have taken cover amid the blare of tornado sirens amid a severe weather outbreak erupting in the Deep South.

A federal judge will decide whether to block Mississippi from using three drugs when it puts inmates to death.

Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is asking to be removed from a civil lawsuit by the state of Mississippi that seeks to recover millions of dollars in misspent welfare money that was intended to help some of the poorest people in the U.S. An attorney for Favre filed papers Monday saying the Mississippi Department of Human Services “groundlessly and irresponsibly seeks to blame Favre for its own grossly improper and unlawful handling of welfare funds and its own failure to properly monitor...

Mississippi football coach Lane Kiffin says he has informed school officials he will be staying put.

Will Rogers passed for two touchdowns and Mississippi State stopped a potential game-tying 2-point conversion with 1:25 remaining to preserve a 24-22 Egg Bowl win over No. 20 Mississippi.

In Massachusetts, Democrats and Republicans could find an issue to agree on: letting bars have happy hours.

No digital intrusions are known to have affected the counting of the midterm vote.

Mississippi’s capital city has been awarded a tranche of federal funds to help fix its crumbling water infrastructure.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the water in Mississippi's capital city is now safe to drink, following months of sampling at a water treatment plant overwhelmed by late August flooding.

Quinshon Judkins rushed for 205 yards, Jaxson Dart passed for three touchdowns and No. 15 Mississippi beat Texas A&M 31-28.

The tiny, all-Black town of Mound Bayou became a safe haven for Emmett Till’s mother as she traveled to Mississippi to testify in the murder trial of two white men who lynched her son in 1955.

Law enforcement officials say former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was hospitalized after wrecking his SUV while swerving to avoid a dog on a rural road.

Mississippi expects 5,000 more births each year as a result of the Supreme Court ruling denying abortion rights.

LSU re-entered The Associated Press College Football poll at No. 18 and No. 25 South Carolina earned a ranking for the first time in four seasons.

Jayden Daniels ran for three touchdowns and passed for two scores, and LSU roared back from an early two-touchdown deficit to hand No. 7 Mississippi its first loss this season, 45-20.

A Mississippi community has unveiled a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till.

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.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state’s majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund improvements for its failing water system.

A new biopic about the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year old Black boy whose lynching in Mississippi in 1955 catalyzed the U.S. civil rights movement, is being promoted as a tribute to Black women and Black mothers who are continuing her legacy and fight for justice, equality and equity.

The University of Mississippi is paying tribute to James Meredith 60 years after integration.

Davis Riley has a share of the lead in the Sanderson Farms Championship.

The NAACP on Tuesday accused Mississippi of discriminating against Black residents by denying badly needed federal funds for drinking water infrastructure in Jackson and instead diverting money to largely-white communities that needed it less.

Years before he became Mississippi governor, Tate Reeves served as the state's treasurer and had a hand in delaying funds for water system repairs in the capital city of Jackson.

Negotiators have agreed to include more than $12 billion in Ukraine-related aid in a stopgap spending bill that would fund the federal government into mid-December.

A boil-water advisory has been lifted for Mississippi's capital, and the state will stop handing out free bottled water on Saturday.

After nearly seven weeks of being forced to boil their water before drinking it or using it to brush teeth, people in Mississippi’s largest city are being told that water from the tap is safe to consume.

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.

The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says he wants Mississippi’s capital city to receive “its fair share” of federal money to repair a troubled water system.

Students in Mississippi’s capital were able to return to class for the first time in a week with assurances that the toilets in sinks in their buildings would finally work.

President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan could lift crushing debt burdens from millions of borrowers.

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.

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.

People are waiting in lines for water in Jackson, Mississippi, after the partial failure of the the city water system.

Mississippi’s capital city is struggling with multiple water problems — there's been too much on the ground after heavy rainfall in the past week, and not enough safe water coming through the pipes for people to use.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says he is declaring a state of emergency after excessive rainfall worsened problems in a water treatment plant in the capital city.

Some Jackson residents are moving belongings out of their homes while others are stocking up on sandbags in anticipation of the Pearl River flooding Mississippi’s capital city.

People in parts of the Deep South are cleaning up after flash flooding sent water into churches, homes and businesses.

The white woman whose accusations prompted the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 talks in a memoir about getting preferential treatment from Mississippi authorities soon after the killing.

Beach crews have found the first sea turtle nest on the Mississippi mainland in four years.

Health officials are grappling with how people staffing the new national 988 crisis hotlines will contend with suspicion of the medical establishment in Black communities.

The Mississippi abortion clinic that was at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade has ended a lawsuit in which it was seeking to block the state from enforcing a law banning most abortions.

The owner of Mississippi's only abortion clinic says she's sold the building and will not reopen the clinic even if a state court allows her to do so.

Mississippi's attorney general has no plan to prosecute the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago.