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In the November letter to Foote, Lumumba said, "Our objective is clear. We want our residents to know that we have taken enormous efforts to secure a garbage collection contract.

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill to set tighter restrictions on who can gather other people's absentee ballots.

Mississippi residents will continue being unable to bypass lawmakers and put policy proposals on statewide ballots.

In the case of Delta State, it had been expected that the IHL might name a new president after having a separate executive session on Wednesday.

The ballot initiative process remains in a court induced coma, as the Mississippi Legislature again let a bill to resurrect it die Thursday. See why.

Deputies who raided the Ohio home of former Hattiesburg resident, comedian, hip-hop star, now U.S. Presidential Candidate's house have sued Afroman.

As a water shortage ballooned into a crisis in Jackson, Miss., the leak grew bigger and bigger, gouging out a swimming pool-size crater in the earth.

A Southaven detective shot at a man the department said stealing a vehicle and who they say fired shots at the detective first.

Five people were killed in Batesville, Mississippi Tuesday night after a vehicle crashed into the barricade of a bridge and went into a creek.

Ocean Springs businessman Kenneth Ritchey initially was charged in a six-count indictment related to hoarding PPE during the coronavirus pandemic.