The Latest Breaking News from Mississippi

Her decision comes while the former NFL quarterback is at the center of a Mississippi welfare fraud case.

As the Mississippi welfare scandal continues to swirl around Favre, a word about the people who need those funds

Nearly every member of my family has ties to Mississippi. During school breaks, we would load up the Aerostar and head out from Detroit, down I-75 south to our grandparents' home in Cruger, a small town nestled somewhere between where Emmett Till's body was found and where Medgar Evers was…

The Democratic mayor of Mississippi's capital is facing a leadership test as the city struggles to consistently produce clean drinking water

Here's what you missed in the first round.

Parts of the Mississippi River are so low from weeks of drought that barge traffic is being limited at the worst possible time — as crop harvests begin

Joyce Chiles presented evidence in the Emmet Till case to a grand jury in 2007

State officials accused of violating civil rights, which resulted in ‘persistently unsafe and unreliable drinking water’ for residents

Favre 4 Hope, whose mission is to support ‘disadvantaged children and breast cancer patients’ donated to the University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Foundation

Officials in Mississippi’s capital city say workers have found lead in water pipes at 16 buildings out of nearly 24,000 checked so far

Such massive storms are fairly rare, and it's even more rare for them to make landfall. NOAA says that for such storms, "catastrophic damage will occur" with electricity outages "for weeks or months."