Put simply, the concerns about the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department did not end with the demise of the Goon Squad.” ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to protect dolphins along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after dozens were ...

The Department of Justice announced on Sept. 19 that it would be conducting an investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff's ...

Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice ...

As the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024-2025 term approaches in October, reflection on Mississippi’s impact on law looms large for ...

A sundown town [...] is an entire community (or even county) that for decades was ‘all white’ on purpose," researchers write ...

Since the 2020 census data was released, racially discriminatory redistricting processes and laws have spread across the nation’s courthouses.

Chinese authorities said the 10-year-old boy was a Japanese national born to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother, and he ...

Pomerantsev: In Louisiana in the 1930s, the governor of the state, Huey Long, became, in the words of a contemporary, “the ...

Mark Thompson Leonard, 71, of Abita Springs passed away Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023, at his home, surrounded by family, friends and dogs. Mark was born Oct. 29, 1952, in Cape Girardeau to Paul J. and Jane ...

The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff’s department whose officers ...

Indianapolis and Gary, Indiana, are among 78 U.S. communities that’ll get federal attention to help reduce “intimate partner ...