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With a limit of seven characters, vanity license plates can get pretty creative. Mississippi has hundreds of thousands of them.
See all of the Mississippi State baseball players picked in the 2025 MLB Draft, including transfers and signees.
As floodwaters rapidly rose overnight across Central Texas, one man’s instincts may have saved a family’s life.
The site of the Jonestown massacre, where over 900 people either died by mass suicide or murder in the Jim Jones-led cult, has opened for tourism.
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Several new Mississippi laws are in effect as of July 1, 2025. These are laws that were passed during the 2025 Legislative Session.
Several new laws are taking effect in Mississippi on July 1, 2025, including one that will gradually eliminate state income tax.
Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.
Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi after nearly 50 years on death row for killing Edwina Marter in a 1976 ransom plot.
The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.
How many people have been executed in Mississippi? How were their deaths conducted? How many women executed? Any notable executions? We have answers.