Oktibbeha County resident Vanessa Outlaw wants answers for herself and others struggling with State Farm Insurance’s claims practices.
SHUQUALAK, Miss.—Last night, at around 10:30 p.m, when Shuqualak Fire Department Chief Leon McClendon was turning over to sleep for the night, his radio went
A levee may burst on the edge of Oxford, the Lafayette County Fire Department has warned since Wednesday, but much of the town is facing flooding with or without it.
The Tennessee Valley Authority may have a big problem—and one that could soon spill over into Mississippi. The federally owned corporation manages the now-defunct Allen Fossil Plant in Memphis, Tenn., where environmental experts claim ash ponds have been contaminating groundwater said to be locally connected to the Memphis Sand Aquifer since at least 2017. This aquifer is the primary source of drinking water for the city of Memphis and serves other communities across the Mid-South.
Southwest Mississippi could suffer flooding and wind gusts as high as 80 miles per hour after Hurricane Delta makes landfall on Louisiana’s coast on Friday. Weather models expect the storm to then travel along an eastward curve into the Magnolia State.
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