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A Virginia state senator has been charged with two felonies for actions at a Confederate monument that was destroyed on June 10 in the city of Portsmouth.

But there are some students who say the statue should be left alone. 

A University of Mississippi sociology professor criticized for encouraging “acts of aggression” against Republican politicians was granted tenure by a divided College Board on Thursday.

One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II. In her 70 years on the throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. For most Britons, she was the only monarch they had […]

From baseball legend Hank Aaron to former Sen. Bob Dole, we remember the notable figures from sports, politics, music and more that we lost in 2021.

James Meredith of Jackson is one of five people being inducted into the Ole Miss alumni hall of fame during homecoming in October.

Some professors say the university should rename its journalism school for an African-American journalist who crusaded against lynching.

A civil rights lawyer forced from a teaching post at the University of Mississippi in one of the last spasms of segregationist control at that Southern university in the 1960s has died.

There are several uncontested races on the ballot for the August 6th Primary in Mississippi

Together, over the next few days, the four helped The Associated Press inform the world about the stunning news that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

WREG has compiled the following list of uncontested races in our viewing area. Tennessee races are on the first page. Follow the links for Mississippi and Arkansas. TENNESSEE Tennessee General Assembly SENATE DISTRICT 33: Katrina Robinson (D) HOUSE DISTRICT 77: Bill Sanderson (R) (inc.) HOUSE DISTRICT 80: Johnny Shaw (D) (inc.) HOUSE DISTRICT 81: Debra Moody (R) […]