Longtime Mississippi lawmaker and Inverness mayor William Green Poindexter passed away at his home Monday morning at 80 years old. The Greenwood native, born January 10, 1944, graduated from Greenwood High School before getting his undergraduate degree at Mississippi … Continued
Less than 15 hours after the U.S. Coast Guard called off its search for a missing Biloxi shrimper, a body was discovered by paddleboarders and later identified as the person authorities were searching for. Richard Kopszywa, 75, was reported missing … Continued
A Columbus city councilman has added another arrest in what has become a long list of run-ins with law enforcement. Councilman Pierre Beard, who represents Ward 4, was arrested and booked into Lowndes County jail on Tuesday morning for failing … Continued
A federal judge is allowing the trial to be delayed for three public officials in Jackson wrapped up in a federal corruption scandal surrounding a proposed real estate development in Mississippi’s capital city. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Daniel P. … Continued
Four dolphins, all of a rare species, were found washed up off the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Petit Bois Island Saturday. Scientists called the “stranding event” a surprise and are analyzing the event to establish an explanation. Officials with the … Continued
Mississippi’s private school league is facing a leadership change after its executive director stepped down less than halfway through the 2023-24 school year. The Midsouth Association of Independent Schools (MAIS), which is headquartered in Pearl but fields athletics teams from … Continued
A man is locked up for allegedly fatally striking a bicyclist and fleeing the scene in Tishomingo County. According to law enforcement, the incident occurred Sunday night on Line Road in the Golden area. Police said the victim, identified as … Continued
Mississippi’s two SEC men’s basketball programs have cracked the latest top 25 from the Associated Press after opening the 2024-25 campaign unblemished. Coming in at No. 23 in the poll is an Ole Miss squad coming off its first triple-digit … Continued
A pair of Mississippi hunters were trekking through the woods when they came across a set of skeletal remains. The hunters were inside the Delta National Forest on Nov. 20 when they made the shocking discovery, according to Sharkey-Issaquena County … Continued
After months of planning, a 70-foot-long steel cockroach created by a Mississippi pest control company now sits at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. A partnership between Bruno Milanese, the owner of Ocean Springs-based Bay Pest Control, and Mississippi … Continued