Mississippi

With America roiling over questions of racial justice and a divisive election just days away, the AP Road Trip team made its way to Mississippi, and the scene of an infamous 1964 triple murder of civil rights workers fighting for Black voting rights.

Law enforcement officers who pulled a driver over for a traffic violation in Mississippi say they discovered about 37 pounds of methamphetamine hidden inside a spare tire stashed in the vehicle

A woman in Mississippi received a slithering surprise when she got home from work last week: a snake that had been lodged on top of her front door landed on her head.

Hurricane Sally made landfall on the Gulf Coast early Wednesday morning and is crawling north at 5mph, leaving floods and building damage in its wake.

A Mississippi man freed from prison last year after 22 years will not be tried a seventh time in a quadruple murder case

A new Mississippi state flag design was chosen on Wednesday, two months after state legislators voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem, NBC News reports.

The next Mississippi state flag could have a magnolia instead of the Confederate battle emblem

Design enthusiasts say some of the five finalists for a new Mississippi flag are distinctive and others have problems.

The son of the owner of a St. Louis-area soul food restaurant that was the setting for the reality show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” has been charged in a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the death of his nephew four years ago

Mississippi has formally retired the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a landmark bill that retires the last state flag bearing the Confederate battle emblem.

The Confederate battle flag is losing its place of official prominence in the South 155 years after the end of the Civil War.

Lawmakers in the Mississippi House and Senate both approved a bill that will require the current state flag to be removed within 15 days. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is likely to sign the bill into law.

Mississippi legislators have taken historic votes to remove a Confederate battle emblem from their state flag.

Mississippi lawmakers are close to erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the 126-year-old state flag.

One of Mississippi’s most prominent natives is calling for a change to the state flag. Country music superstar Faith Hill wrote a Twitter thread on Thursday addressed to the legislature of her home state in which she calls for the removal of the Confederate battle flag emblem from Mississippi’s state flag. Hill, 52, who was raised in the small town of Star, wrote...

The Confederate-themed Mississippi flag is drawing criticism from two big forces in the culturally conservative state.
Walmart says it will no longer display the state flag because it includes the Confederate battle emblem.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said he’s “heartbroken and furious” after a fire this week at a church that has challenged coronavirus restrictions. The fire is being investigated as arson, NBC News reports.

The coronavirus pandemic is complicating relief work after storms killed more than 30 people across the South

At least 33 people are dead and dozen dozen more are wounded after a string of tornadoes tore a path from the Deep South to the East Coast on Easter Sunday. The devastation stretches across multiple states, where homes and business were left in ruins. Mississippi was especially hard hit, with damage reported across nearly the entire state.