Mississippi

New court documents show retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre texted the Mississippi governor in 2019 to ask about getting money from the state’s welfare agency to build an indoor practice facility for the University of Southern Mississippi’s football team

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.

Writer Jeff Pearlman is keeping his distance from a 2016 Brett Favre book he wrote after text messages revealed that former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant helped the QB obtain welfare funds to build a volleyball stadium at the University of Southern Mississippi.

A pilot circled north Mississippi with a stolen airplane and threatened to crash into a Walmart according to police

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. Tupelo Police Chief John Quaka says 29-year-old Cory Wayne Patterson didn’t have a pilot’s license but had some flight instruction and was an employee of Tupelo Aviation. Patterson could also...

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. Flooding early in the week exacerbated problems with Jackson’s long-troubled water system. The whole city was affected at one time or another by low pressure and many remain without...

People continued to wait in lines at distribution sites and flooded stores for water to drink, bathe, cook and flush toilets Wednesday in Mississippi’s capital amid the failure of the city water system.

Jackson, Mississippi, has declared a state of emergency after rain and flooding disrupted the city’s water system.

Water has caused a crisis in Mississippi’s capital city. There has 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. Parts of Jackson have been without running water because flooding worsened problems in a water-treatment plant. The city of 150,000 had already been...

Jacob Blair Scott pleaded guilty to charges of sending a false distress call that led to a Coast Guard search; illegally shipping weapons across state lines and giving false information, according to court records.

An Airbnb listing in Mississippi advertised as a “slave cabin” has been removed from the site following backlash on social media. Airbnb apologized after a TikTok video went viral criticizing the description of a cottage in Greenville. The bed and breakfast was marketed as an “1830s slave cabin.” Wynton Yates, a Black lawyer from New Orleans, made a video criticizing...

The white woman who was at the center of the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi denies wanting him killed.

Mississippi’s only abortion clinic has been buzzing with activity in the chaotic days since the U.S. Supreme Court upended abortion rights nationwide. The case originated in Mississippi with the bright pink medical facility called Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Physicians there have been trying to see as many patients as possible before the facility, best known as the Pink House, permanently...

The founder of a midwifery clinic in Mississippi’s capital is trying to open the state’s first birth center. As state Republican officials are trying to ban abortion and await a ruling that could overturn Roe v. Wade, Sisters in Birth CEO Getty Israel says nothing is being done to support women who choose to give birth.

During the trial, the victim cried as she testified that Jacob Blair Scott sexually assaulted her at least 30 times beginning in 2016 and ending in 2017 when she learned she was pregnant.

The retired NFL quarterback has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing, and last year repaid appearance fees allegedly paid using misspent funds.

Authorities say the possible suspect in the fatal shooting of three people at a Mississippi Gulf Coast motel and subsequent death of a person shot during a carjacking was found dead after a standoff with police.

Severe storms and a possible tornado damaged buildings and downed power lines in northwest Arkansas early Wednesday as tornadoes and hurricane-force winds were forecast in much of the Deep South, a week after severe storms struck the New Orleans area.

Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

The superintendent of the Hinds County School District in Mississippi said Toby Price showed “a lack of professionalism and impaired judgment”