Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach had a massive heart attack on Sunday in Starkville and was transferred to University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, where he is still being cared for on Monday.
“I don’t have the best grammar. I’m not the best-looking head coach you can hire. I’m country,” Arkansas football coach Sam Pittman said. "... the state will accept me as long as I’m genuine.”
The nine-member commission for the new state flag has chosen the New Magnolia Flag design to go on the Nov. 3 ballot. What do you think about the choice?
Family members of Emmet Till are asking for murder charges against Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose false accusations led to the death 14-year-old’s kidnapping and lynching. She is the only living accomplice in the crime, they said.
“It was the 3rd of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day.” If you know those lyrics, you know about the mystery behind "Ode to Billie Joe." But the real question is what happened to singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry.
State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs pleaded with Mississippians to get vaccinated against the coronavirus Thursday. Stop looking at Facebook and other unreliable sources, he said.
Saturday marks what would have been Emmett Till's 79th birthday, and there are some who feel his story still isn't being told. Actor
@TayeDiggs
is working to help the
@EmmettTill
Legacy Foundation spread the word and bring closure to the case.
"We'll worry about the school part of it after we get all this sorted out," he said. "You can't expect a child to stay focused on the schoolwork when he's trying to focus on where Mom and Dad are.
A stolen airplane circled over north Mississippi on Saturday morning, and police said they evacuated a Walmart store after the pilot threatened to crash into it. Here are more details.
A Bronze Star veteran in Collins is caught in limbo over prosthetic legs he needs to live an independent life and a fight surrounding who should pay for them.
Seven years ago, people in Desoto County started talking about a fifth-grade football player. Now he is one of the top players in the state and plans to play for Ole Miss.
Coach
@DeionSanders
is calling on fans of all Mississippi college football teams to show up and support
@GoJSUTigersFB
as the Tigers try to win their first
#SWAC
title since 2007.
"This is Mississippi versus (everybody else)."
CORRECTION & APOLOGY:
@HailStateWBK
coach Vic Schaefer was misidentified in a quote in Wednesday’s print edition. It was another embarrassing mistake, and we’re sorry. As a result, we have taken the steps necessary to return approval of the sports cover design to local editors.
Emmett Till was a black teenager lynched in Mississippi in 1955 by white men who were later acquitted despite eyewitness testimony tying them to the killing.