Two century-old weekly newspapers in Mississippi closed their doors in late June. The Jasper County News and the Smith County Reformer, owned by Buckley Newspapers Inc., closed for financial reasons.

COLUMBUS, Miss. — In a roughly 150-square-foot room on the second floor of The Commercial Dispatch, the newspaper of record for Columbus and surrounding Lowndes County, Mississippi, are large, heavy ...

One century-old weekly newspaper in Mississippi is set to close its doors by the end of July, shortly after two other newspapers confirmed to the Clarion Ledger their closures. The Leland Progress in ...

The publisher of two historic newspapers that went out of business last week was sentenced to prison just weeks before for receiving convictions for sex crimes involving a minor. Zachary Wes Buckley, ...

Roland Weeks Jr. was a leader among leaders, a man who cared deeply about the Mississippi Gulf Coast and helped shape the ...

Fannie Lou Hamer’s Presidential Medal of Freedom will go on display in the next few months at the Two Mississippi Museums.

A Mississippi newspaper scared NFL fans when it published a random story with an obituary-like headline on former NFL quarterback Archie Manning on Tuesday. The Clarion-Ledger, the second-oldest ...

A newspaper that has served Jackson County since the 1960s will soon no longer publish a printed edition. Instead, the owners of the Mississippi Press say they will focus on the digital delivery of ...

It was Mississippi’s second execution of the year and the third in the U.S. this week, following executions Tuesday in ...

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Charles Tisdale purchased an innocuous, nearly defunct weekly newspaper in 1978, transformed it into a strident voice for African Americans and poor whites in Mississippi, then endured the wrath of ...