Hinds County

Third Mississippi man is buried in a pauper’s grave without family’s knowledge

Sports
Daniel Miller

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A third man in Mississippi has been discovered buried in a pauper’s cemetery without his relatives’ knowledge — ...

Mississippi GOP challenges election night court order that kept polls open during ballot shortage

Politics
Amanda Smith

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After ballot shortages in Mississippi’s largest county sowed chaos and confusion on the evening of the November statewide ...

Dexter Wade’s family suffers a final indignity as he’s exhumed without ceremony

U.S.
Amanda Smith

RAYMOND, Miss. — Monday was supposed to be the day Bettersten Wade would finally get a measure of peace. Instead, she suffered ...

Advocates helped rally Black voters in MS. Then came ballot shortages

U.S.
Amanda Smith

Voter restriction laws: Why Republican states are changing them Republican states are passing several voter restriction laws in response to Trump’s 2020 ...