Mississippi

Mississippi will fly a new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase “In God We Trust,” with voters approving the design Tuesday. It replaces a Confederate-themed flag state lawmakers retired months ago as part of the national reckoning over racial injustice.

More than 21 million voters across the U.S. have already cast ballots in person amid record-breaking early turnout

Hurricane Zeta made landfall on Mexico’s eastern Yucatan Peninsula late Monday, whipping the resorts around Tulum with rain and wind.

With America roiling over questions of racial justice and a divisive election just days away, the AP Road Trip team made its way to Mississippi, and the scene of an infamous 1964 triple murder of civil rights workers fighting for Black voting rights.

Law enforcement officers who pulled a driver over for a traffic violation in Mississippi say they discovered about 37 pounds of methamphetamine hidden inside a spare tire stashed in the vehicle

A woman in Mississippi received a slithering surprise when she got home from work last week: a snake that had been lodged on top of her front door landed on her head.

Hurricane Sally made landfall on the Gulf Coast early Wednesday morning and is crawling north at 5mph, leaving floods and building damage in its wake.

A Mississippi man freed from prison last year after 22 years will not be tried a seventh time in a quadruple murder case

A new Mississippi state flag design was chosen on Wednesday, two months after state legislators voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem, NBC News reports.

The next Mississippi state flag could have a magnolia instead of the Confederate battle emblem

Design enthusiasts say some of the five finalists for a new Mississippi flag are distinctive and others have problems.

The son of the owner of a St. Louis-area soul food restaurant that was the setting for the reality show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” has been charged in a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the death of his nephew four years ago

Mississippi has formally retired the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a landmark bill that retires the last state flag bearing the Confederate battle emblem.

The Confederate battle flag is losing its place of official prominence in the South 155 years after the end of the Civil War.

Lawmakers in the Mississippi House and Senate both approved a bill that will require the current state flag to be removed within 15 days. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is likely to sign the bill into law.

Mississippi legislators have taken historic votes to remove a Confederate battle emblem from their state flag.

Mississippi lawmakers are close to erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the 126-year-old state flag.

One of Mississippi’s most prominent natives is calling for a change to the state flag. Country music superstar Faith Hill wrote a Twitter thread on Thursday addressed to the legislature of her home state in which she calls for the removal of the Confederate battle flag emblem from Mississippi’s state flag. Hill, 52, who was raised in the small town of Star, wrote...

The Confederate-themed Mississippi flag is drawing criticism from two big forces in the culturally conservative state.
Walmart says it will no longer display the state flag because it includes the Confederate battle emblem.