Mississippi

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.

Storms that killed more than 30 people in the Southeast, piling fresh misery atop a pandemic, spread across the eastern United States on Monday, leaving more than 1 million homes and businesses without power amid floods and mudslides. In Alabama, people seeking shelter from tornadoes huddled in community shelters, protective masks covering their faces to guard against the new coronavirus….

A couple who had been married for more than 50 years died only six minutes apart from the coronavirus last week while holding hands until the end, according to Mississippi’s Sun Herald.

The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado touched down in Mississippi near the Alabama line overnight, causing damage to some structures and minor injuries.

Former Vice President Joe Biden was the projected winner of the Democratic primary in Mississippi on Tuesday. Biden and Bernie Sanders were competing in six states Tuesday.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden worshiped at a predominantly African American church in Mississippi, two days before the state’s primary.

Inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman say chronic staff shortages and rampant violence have led some prisoners to insert their own catheters, treat their own stab wounds and suffer through seizures without medication. There is one guard for every 160 inmates, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday in the Northern District of Mississippi. The suit…

The daughter of a Mississippi man on trial in the shooting deaths of eight people has testified that he beat her frequently during her childhood.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency Saturday amid predictions that a river running in the area around the state capital of Jackson could burst its banks and spark widespread flooding. Forecasters believe the Pearl River will crest at 38 feet Sunday evening to levels not seen in decades, following days of torrential rains across the Southeast. Reeves…

Opening arguments have begun in the death penalty trial of a man accused of killing eight people in Mississippi in 2017.