Tunica Public School District could soon regain local control due to improvements after a nine-year state conservatorship.
Dexter Wade’s death and Hinds County’s subsequent decision to bury him in an unmarked grave without informing his mother was “tragic” but “there was no malicious intent,” Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba said Thursday.
Jackson Police officers are using new GPS-launching “StarChase” devices in police pursuits. The news comes after years of criticism over dangerous police chases in the capital city.
After searching for her missing son Dexter Wade for months, JPD told Bettersten Wade an officer had struck and killed him six months earlier.
Mississippi’s drug overdose death rate declined 10% in 2022 after more than doubling over the preceding five years as a coalition of state agencies banded together to tackle the crisis, State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney says.
The Mississippi Coalition to End Corporal Punishment attended the MDE Board of Education meeting and rallied at the Capitol to end harsh discipline.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is investigating reports that someone fired gunshots outside U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s home in Brookhaven, Miss., on Sunday afternoon. No injuries have been reported.
Police have arrested two suspects in the on-campus shooting death of Jackson State University student Jaylen Burns in Columbia, Miss., and Ellisville, Miss.
The 50 fellows of the Mississippi Fellowship of Coaching Excellence are part of a new initiative to empower coaches to be leaders in their sports, schools and communities.
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