The administration appears set to end federal oversight of police, including agencies that have committed systemic civil rights violations.

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The Mississippi House of Representatives approved an amendment Wednesday to a bill intended to better ...

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...

Feds want Mississippi to pay back $101 million in federal assistance for poor families stolen in fraud scheme. Where did the ...

Richard Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row for 47 years. He is now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case.

A man who escaped a Puerto Rican prison nearly 40 years ago was taken into custody in Florida, according to the Lee County ...

Nevin Whetstone, who is serving life for the 1983 murder of Loretta Darlene Steele in Lee County, was recaptured Friday.

Three days after escaping from Parchman prison, a man serving a life sentence was recaptured in the same county.

The state waited too long to bring the tampering charge, Lafayette County Circuit Judge Kelly Luther ruled Friday.

The tampering with evidence charge has been dismissed for the man accused of killing Jimmie “Jay” Lee. Lafayette County ...

Nevin Whetstone is serving a life sentence for capital murder committed in Lee County. He remains on the loose from prison.

murder 4-year-old Erin Brunett last summer. Callihan allegedly killed the girls’ mother before taking them to Mississippi, where Erin was killed. The other daughter, a 6-year-old, survived.