Brittany Brown

The local novelist doubles down on the sex in his latest.

In the wake of bomb threats to HBCUs, Jackson State’s President Thomas Hudson says campus safety improvements are needed. The price tag? $12 million.

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the state, the Mississippi Supreme Court is allowing judges to delay trials until October.

Advocacy organizations in Mississippi are going directly into Hispanic and immigrant communities to provide access to COVID vaccines.

The family of Dominique Clayton, the 32-year-old mother of four who was shot and killed by former Oxford police officer Matthew Kinne, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Oxford Police Department, the City of Oxford and Kinne on Thursday.

Hinds County Sheriff Lee Vance tested positive for COVID-19 on July 22 although he was fully vaccinated. He was recovering at his home.

Visitation at all Mississippi Department of Corrections prisons has been suspended, Commissioner Burl Cain said in an internal memo Monday.

Mississippi Department of Corrections has suspended visitation in its prisons in an effort to protect them from the COVID-19 Delta variant.

After 15 months, MDOC issued a new visitation policy, but families of incarcerated Mississippians say it’s not enough.

Award-winning novelist Deesha Philyaw is a featured guest at this year’s Mississippi Book Festival.