Mississippi

Monkeys
Innovation

3 monkeys still on the loose after research transport truck crashes in rural Mississippi

By Jeff Martin and The Associated Press
November 4, 2025
Mississippi monkey
North America

‘I did what any other mother would do to protect her children’: Mississippi mother wields frontier justice against escaped monkey menacing her home

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
November 4, 2025
Powerful storms kill 2 in Mississippi and launch wildfires and blizzard conditions across the U.S.
Environment

Powerful storms kill 2 in Mississippi and launch wildfires and blizzard conditions across the U.S.

By Jeff Martin, Jack Brook and The Associated Press
March 5, 2025
Brett Favre testifies in front of a House committee
Health

Brett Favre reveals Parkinson’s diagnosis during hearing on welfare funds scandal

By Dave Smith, Emily Wagster Pettus and The Associated Press
September 24, 2024
James Earl Jones in a tuxedo holds an award while standing next to Mark Hamill.
Success

Voice actor James Earl Jones, who died at 93, was paid just $7,000 for his Darth Vader role

By
September 10, 2024
After a 16-year-old boy died cleaning a poultry plant, a Georgia company agreed to a safety overhaul
Finance

After a 16-year-old boy died cleaning a poultry plant, a Georgia company agreed to a safety overhaul

By
August 16, 2024
A pile of wood used to make pellets
Environment

$3 billion energy giant admits violating pollution limits in Louisiana—just like it did in Mississippi

By Jack Brook and The Associated Press
August 12, 2024
Shelia Mae Dobbins
Environment

A 59-year-old widow has been forced to use a breathing tube and skyrocketing demand for wood pellets in the EU might be to blame

By James Pollard, Julie Watson, Stephen Smith and The Associated Press
July 26, 2024
Mississippi
Health

One of the poorest and unhealthiest states in America just spiked a Medicaid opposition amid widespread Republican opposition

By Emily Wagster Pettus and The Associated Press
May 3, 2024
Brett Favre
Politics

Mississippi is still trying to get Brett Favre to repay nearly $730,000 in welfare funds that he used on a volleyball arena

By Emily Wagster Pettus and The Associated Press
February 6, 2024
A worker on an oil rig
Success

Don’t have a college education and want to make bank and take half the year off? Oil rig work is the hot job for many Americans

By
January 27, 2024
D'Monterrio Gibson speaking at a news conference
Success

A Black former FedEx delivery driver is suing for $5M, saying two white men shot into his van and pursued him in a high-speed chase

By Emily Wagster Pettus and The Associated Press
November 30, 2023
Brett Favre will testify in Mississippi case over misspent welfare money, including $5m that helped fund a volleyball arena that the NFL star supported
Finance

Brett Favre will testify in Mississippi case over misspent welfare money, including $5m that helped fund a volleyball arena that the NFL star supported

By Michael Goldberg and The Associated Press
October 5, 2023
Mississippi farms pay $850,000 in back wages and fines for paying local Black workers less than immigrants
Finance

Mississippi farms pay $850,000 in back wages and fines for paying local Black workers less than immigrants

By Emily Wagster Pettus and The Associated Press
June 29, 2023
Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre would like to be removed as a defendant in a civil trial over millions of misspent welfare money
Lifestyle

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre would like to be removed as a defendant in a civil trial over millions of misspent welfare money

By Emily Wagster Pettus and The Associated Press
May 17, 2023

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