U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and Education Secretary Linda McMahon today agreed to work together to reach a long-sought goal of allowing students to use Pell Grants funding to finance short ...

Shamarion Rashawn Lee Ellis, 5, graduated from kindergarten. He will join his classmates in the first grade at McCoy Elementary School. He is the son of Shanunterra Ellis and the grandson of Edith ...

Local news coverage is critical for a strong and vibrant community. Unfortunately, local publications are dying because of ...

Melanie Davis Hardy of Bentonia, a sixth-grade science teacher at Yazoo County Middle School, has been named a 2025 National STEM Scholar, one of only ten middle school science teachers selected from ...

Edmund E. McMaster, was born in Yazoo County on December 4, 1932, and passed away on August 4, 2024, in Vicksburg, MS. Edmund was a devoted husband to Jo McMaster for 65 years, and a cherished father, ...

A Scott County Grand Jury meeting this week in Special Session continued  “for further investigation” the one case they were ...

The conservative incumbent, Ashby Foote, is facing stiff competition as Ward 1, the city’s whitest ward in wealthy northeast ...

Lawmakers on Thursday finally passed a $7.1 billion state budget to fund government agencies, but it wasn’t a master class in ...

Senators expressed frustration with the House of Representatives leaving Jackson early Thursday morning before both chambers ...

The House pulled an all-nighter then left Jackson, leaving the Senate to either concur with bills it sent … or lump it. The ...

The House pulled an all-nighter then left Jackson, leaving the Senate to either concur with bills it sent … or lump it. The ...

Barbara Daves Arnold passed away on May 28, 2025. She was born on Aug. 21, 1935 to Robert Ward and Willie Daves and grew up in Greenwood. Later, she married David Walker Arnold and had one daughter, ...