by Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today October 13, 2023 Gov. Tate Reeves rolled up in his blacked-out SUV to a DeSoto County church earlier this month to meet with conservative voters who felt uninspired about his first term in office. The closed-door meeting, held in a...
by Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today October 15, 2023 Brandon Presley, the Democratic nominee for governor, got thrown off script Saturday when a DJ, in the maze of tailgating tents at Jackson State University’s homecoming game, grabbed a microphone to cut him off...
by Ilyssa Daly and Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today October 13, 2023 A dozen days after five Rankin County deputies known as the “Goon Squad” tortured, tased and sexually abused two Black men, the Rankin County Board of Supervisors gave Sheriff Bryan Bailey a $21,059...
by Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today October 12, 2023 A group of Ocean Springs residents, a business owner and a church all filed a lawsuit in federal court against the city on Thursday over an urban renewal plan that labeled certain properties as “slums” or...
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today October 10, 2023 William Brown and Millard Bingham, standing with their arms crossed, are waiting in a hallway of classrooms for the executive session to end, hoping it’ll bring some information about who is going to be the next...
On Oct. 19, Mississippi Public Broadcasting will premiere the first episode of a new three-part documentary detailing the harrowing destruction and ongoing recovery in Rolling Fork, where a deadly tornado tore a path in March 2023. The “Rolling Fork Tornado of 2023:...
