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Both candidates for Mississippi lieutenant governor say they will push to increase teacher pay and to make the operation of the state Senate more transparent.

Trustee Doug Rouse said Thursday that he and other trustees could choose a new leader by the end of October.

A controversial statue of a Confederate soldier that has stood at the University of Mississippi since 1906 is moving to a not so prominent part of campus. 

The University of Mississippi said Wednesday that it’s moving ahead with plans to transfer a Confederate soldier monument from its central location on campus to a spot near a secluded Confederate cemetery.

According to the complaint, the markers commemorated the deaths of Confederate generals killed in the Battle of Franklin on Nov. 30, 1864. The markers were installed in 1999.

The sign brought in so many supporters, however, that he sold out by the end of the week.

Two-term state Treasurer Lynn Fitch of Ridgeland and longtime Republican figure Andy Taggart of Madison are heading to a runoff in the Republican primary for Mississippi attorney general.

A special prosecutor said Thursday that the office of the now-outgoing Tennessee House speaker did not doctor a black activist’s email to frame him for a bond violation.

The televised forum was the only time Reeves is debating former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Bill Waller Jr. and state Rep. Robert Foster before the Aug. 6 party primaries.

DYERSBURG, Tenn. — Less than a week after declaring July 13 as “Nathan Bedford Forrest Day,” Governor Bill Lee visited West Tennessee and made his thoughts on the subject clear. Though it’s been five days since Lee proclaimed the day after the Confederate general and first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, he hasn’t […]

The chief emphasized investigators believe Ronn Jermaine Bell killed Roberts-Joseph but they have yet to establish “a complete, solid motive at this time.”