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Remnants of Hurricane Laura unleashed heavy rain and twisters hundreds of miles inland from a path of death and destruction and mangled buildings along the Gulf Coast, and forecasters warned a turn toward the east may spell new dangers for the Eastern Seaboard over the weekend.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Members of the Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag met at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson on Tuesday. Each of the five final flag designs under consideration were raised on the flagpole. Afterwards, the commissioners continued their meeting at the Two Mississippi Museums. During their meeting, the commission eliminated […]

Erik Moses, a former XFL team president, is the first black person to be named president at a NASCAR track.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Statues of Confederate leaders Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis have been gone from Memphis for two and a half years, but their future is uncertain.  Both sides say respect and cooperation eventually bridged gaps that once seemed impossible. It took years of legislative and legal work but eventually, in September 2017, […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A group recommending a new Mississippi state flag chose five final designs Tuesday — three with a magnolia blossom, one with a magnolia tree and one with a shield that has wavy lines representing water. Mississippi legislators voted in late June to retire the last state flag in the U.S. with […]

A legal challenge won’t have any effect on the governor’s position to move a Confederate general’s bust from the Tennessee capitol building to the state museum.

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.

The bust of a Confederate general inside the Tennessee state capitol isn’t going anywhere without a legal fight.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Commissioners working on a new Mississippi flag said they don’t want a big single star on the banner. That image is already taken by Texas. One also said he doesn’t want a design that depicts one of Mississippi’s next-door neighbors. A flag chosen as a finalist features the western border of […]

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — After several hours of mostly peaceful demonstrations Saturday in an Atlanta suburb that’s home to a giant Confederate memorial, large numbers of police moved in to disperse the crowds when fights broke out. Several dozen right-wing demonstrators, some waving the Confederate battle flag and many wearing military gear, gathered in […]

The new Mississippi state flag will not include beer cans, crawfish, a caramel cake, Elvis or Kermit the Frog.