Jaylen Burns Shooting Death Suspects Arrested in Columbia, Ellisville
Police have arrested two suspects in the on-campus shooting death of Jackson State University student Jaylen Burns in Columbia, Miss., and Ellisville, Miss.
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 “Heartstopper” graphic novel series will no longer be available to minors at the Columbia-Marion County Public Library after its board agreed to a group of enraged residents’ demands to remove them from the young adult section during a meeting on Friday.
The Columbia-Marion County Public Library has temporarily removed “Heartstopper” from its book shelves after complaints about LGBTQ+ content. The library’s board of directors temporarily pulled the books from the shelves to review them.
One Lake backers and opponents gathered in Jackson to share views on the project that could have major downstream effects on the Pearl River.
“What happens in Mississippi does not stay in Mississippi, and the Magnolia State is not the outlier that many who only ever offer sneers and derision for our state and our people would like to think,” Ashton Pittman writes.
Preserving heritage and cultural pride are driving forces for Gloria Gipson Suggs’ visual art.
On the day Mississippi recorded its second-biggest jump in COVID-19 cases so far, Gov. Tate Reeves announced plans to relax measures meant to curb the
A Marion County, Miss., woman is worried about her grandmother’s safety after an employee at her nursing home in Columbia tested positive for COVID-19. The granddaughter contacted the Mississippi Free Press last night saying that the facility, The Grove, had disclosed the news to her family that evening. Shortly afterward, the nursing home sent a letter to residents’ families.
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