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 ...

As violent crime surges across Mississippi, Natchez Mayor Dan M. Gibson calls for urgent reforms, tougher penalties for ...

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

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 ...

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

A Mississippi judge on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order requested by the City of Clarksdale requiring a local newspaper to remove a critical editorial from its website, a move that alarmed ...

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 ...

This story is part of The Confederate Reckoning, a collaborative project of USA TODAY Network newsrooms across the South to critically examine the legacy of the Confederacy and its influence on ...

In April 2025, a Reddit user on the r/todayilearned (TIL) subreddit claimed that officials in Mississippi — a U.S. state with a long history of civil and racial injustice — once refused to broadcast ...