by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today June 29, 2023 U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves has dismissed a gun possession case against a man convicted of a felony, citing a Supreme Court precedent he criticized last year and ruling convicted felons have a Second Amendment...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today June 28, 2023 The mother of a man allegedly tortured and shot in the mouth by a Rankin County sheriff’s deputy earlier this year and another mother of a man beaten, tased and killed by deputies in 2021 said the recent firing of...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today June 27, 2023 Rankin County deputies accused of beating and torturing two men earlier this year have been fired, Sheriff Bryan Bailey announced Tuesday. “We understand that the alleged actions of these deputies has eroded the public’s...
by Pam Dankins, Mississippi Today June 26, 2023 Prospect Hill, a preserved, abandoned building hidden deep in the woods of Jefferson County, Mississippi, is a connection to the history of Liberia in West Africa and to the lives of descendant communities of over 300...
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today June 26, 2023 Thalia Mara, for whom Jackson’s magnificent municipal auditorium is named, was the daughter of Russian immigrants, grew up in Chicago, studied classical ballet in Paris, toured the world as a dancer, and founded and...
The Jackson Hinds Library System will experience a total internet outage system-wide during a two-day upgrade to CSpire from June 27th to 28th. During this critical project, all library servers will be relocated from the Eudora Welty Library to the Willie Morris...
