In Mississippi’s Capital, Old Racial Divides Take New Forms. ... On Feb. 7 the House voted 76 to 38, largely along racial and party lines, to send the bill to the Senate.

The Supreme Court will consider whether to revive a lawsuit from a man barred from evangelizing outside a small-town ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The capital city and Mississippi’s current capitol building have played big roles throughout Mississippi’s history, but so have many others over the last 226 years.

Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

Before the House finished its work for the May 28-29 special session, it shot down a local projects bill funneling $18 ...

The Mississippi Capitol Police has shot four people in Jackson since ... The victims include a 25-year-old father of two who was fatally shot in the head during what ... The House bill, which a ...

The 3,558-square-foot Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house, Fountainhead in Mississippi, is currently being sold by its owner ...

JACKSON, Miss. — The majority-white and Republican-led Mississippi Senate voted Tuesday to pass its version of a bill that would allow an expanded role for state police and appointed judges ...

The Mississippi House of Representatives, at the State Capitol in Jackson. Tim Thorsen Sun Herald House and Senate members often adjourn a legislative day in memory of a constituent or other well ...

Other portraits in the Mississippi Capitol are of former governors and former House speakers, who were all white men. The artist, Ryan Mack, said he based the portrait on a photo of Clarke from ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Rep. Alyce Clarke was the first Black woman elected to the Mississippi Legislature, and now she is the first Black person — and first woman — to have a portrait ...

Mississippi House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Trey Lamar, ... it’s just the same old song,” she said. The Capitol Police currently patrol state government buildings in and near downtown.