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ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — President Joe Biden saw for himself the flattened homes, broken furniture and upended lives left behind by last week’s deadly tornado in Mississippi and pledged Friday that the federal government is not leaving until the area is back on its feet. In the close-knit community of Rolling Fork, Biden read […]

ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Help began pouring into one of the poorest regions of the U.S. after a deadly tornado tore a path of destruction for more than an hour across a long swath of Mississippi, even as furious new storms Sunday struck across the Deep South. At least 25 people were killed and […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves insisted Thursday that legislators pass a bill to phase out the state income tax, but other Republicans who lead the House and Senate remained far apart on the issue. With a week and a half remaining in the three-month legislative session, Reeves unveiled his own proposal. He […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is on the verge of scuttling a state song with racist roots, two years after it retired a Confederate-themed state flag. The current song, “Go, Mississippi,” takes its tune from a 1959 campaign jingle of Democratic Gov. Ross Barnett. “Roll With Ross” included the lyrics, “For segregation, 100%. He’s not a moderate, like some of […]

Democrats in Mississippi are feeling optimistic that their party will be able to oust Gov. Tate Reeves (R) from the governor’s mansion this fall after Democrat Brandon Presley’s recent entry in the race.  Reeves has suffered from low approval ratings and has been name-checked at times in the state’s long-running welfare scandal, but the governorship […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In a federal complaint Tuesday, the NAACP said Mississippi officials “all but assured” a drinking water calamity in Jackson by depriving the state’s majority-Black capital city of badly needed funds to upgrade its infrastructure. The organization asked the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate the state’s alleged pattern of steering money to […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will be asking voters for a second term leading one of the nation’s biggest cities. Republicans will try to take full control of the Virginia Legislature. Governors’ mansions are up for election in Louisiana and Mississippi, and a Democratic governor in red-state Kentucky will try to hang on […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Random gunfire, repeated break-ins and a decaying city water system are constant challenges at Mom’s Dream Kitchen, the soul food restaurant Timothy Norris’ mother opened 35 years ago in Mississippi’s capital. “I have some cousins that live in Ohio,” said Norris, 54, who now owns the restaurant. “They came last year. […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Mississippi State Department of Health says COVID-19 testing and vaccination sites throughout the state will be closed due to Hurricane Ida. All sites will be closed Monday, August 30, and sites in central and south Mississippi will remain closed Tuesday, August 31. The state health department says further closings are possible […]

Half a dozen states are trying to cut down their individual income taxes as inflation continues to hit the U.S.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves speaks Thursday, March 24, 2022, during a news conference outside his Capitol office in Jackson, Miss. The Republican says he wants legislators to phase out the state income tax. (AP Photo/Emily Wagster Pettus)