In 1968, he became the first Black person to serve in the Legislature since Reconstruction. Shunned by colleagues at first, ...

"The City did not initiate moving the cell tower. The City agreed to this to accommodate the State’s intended use of the land ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A bill that would have moved a cell phone tower from the former Eudora Welty Library to the ...

As the organizations that collectively represent public libraries in the United States, the Association for Rural & Small ...

NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre wants someone to tell him about the JFK assassination so he doesn't have to read 70,000+ pages ...

March 18th, 1925 - the day of the deadliest and most devastating storm in all of United States history, known as the Great ...

The first patient with COVID-19 in Mississippi was detected March 11, 2020. 8 days later, the state saw its first death. By ...

"They'd cut me out, and I couldn't get the floor," he told historian John Dittmer in 2013 in an oral history for the Library of ... Veteran Mississippi journalist Bill Minor, a white man who spent his ...

The University of Mississippi is the only institution in the state on the list and is one ... Boston Children's Hospital and the Boston Public Library, making 15 institutions total.

Sweepstakes casinos are the new target for New Jersey lawmakers, as a new bill goes through the house to try stomp them out.

Community lenders and developers are scrambling to determine the ramifications of a late Friday executive order from the ...