Investigation

Investigation | John R. Lott, Jr. •

October 16, 2024

Stealth Edit: FBI quietly revises violent crime stats

Even as polls show that Americans are concerned about crime, the FBI and the media are making it difficult to see how crime rates have changed over the last few years.

Shad White

Investigation | Russ Latino •

August 13, 2024

White’s ‘Mississippi Swindle’ hits shelves, last nerves

Auditor Shad White's criticism of Attorney General Lynn Fitch and State Republican Party Chairman Mike Hurst has drawn sharp rebuke, with both describing 'Mississippi Swindle' as a "fiction." White's not backing down.

Newark Federal District Court where Keaton Langston will be sentenced.

Investigation | Russ Latino •

May 26, 2024

Family Tradition: Keaton Langston pleads guilty in $51 million Medicare fraud

A new trail of healthcare corruption that stretches from Mississippi to the mafia raises questions about the Biden family's involvement in related businesses.

Investigation | Sarah Fowler, The New York Times , Photographer Rory Doyle •

February 5, 2024

Big Companies Cashed In on Mississippi’s Water. Small Towns Paid the Price.

They vowed to fix water woes and save cities millions. But a New York Times investigation found the deals racked up debt and left many worse off than before.

Investigation | Frank Corder •

May 30, 2023

Contributions to sitting Public Service Commissioners raise questions

The Mississippi PSC has a complicated history with gifts and campaign contributions dating back over 30 years.

Investigation | Anne Summerhays •

May 23, 2023

Experts have serious concerns about Mississippi’s public defender system

Experts suggest Mississippi is failing to satisfy its Sixth Amendment duty to provide access to counsel for indigent defendants, costing counties millions and putting the civil rights of thousands in jeopardy. Andre de Gruy speaks rapidly. The Louisiana native turned Mississippi son is a man on a mission to change the world, or at least…

News

News | Matthew Perrone, Associated Press •

July 29, 2025

US health officials crack down on kratom-related products after complaints from supplement industry

News | Frank Corder •

July 29, 2025

Are property taxes going up in Mississippi?

News | Kevin Freking, Associated Press •

July 29, 2025

Government shutdown talk is starting early ahead of a difficult funding fight in Congress this fall

Business

Business | Lynne Jeter •

July 17, 2025

Southern Miss, Integer Technologies land $25 million defense contract

Business | Frank Corder •

July 9, 2025

Nissan delays EV production at Canton plant until 2028

Business | Lynne Jeter •

July 8, 2025

Mississippi tech companies featured at premier national defense innovation event

Culture

Culture | Meredith Biesinger •

July 29, 2025

Smitty’s Super Service: Mississippi’s animatronic time machine

Culture | C.H. Spurgeon •

July 29, 2025

Partial knowledge

Culture | Parrish Alford •

July 28, 2025

Can Huff find early success for Southern Miss football?

Opinion

Opinion | Russ Latino •

July 27, 2025

Facing the Darkness

Opinion | Kimberly Ross •

July 23, 2025

Caught in the Epstein web

Opinion | Sid Salter •

July 23, 2025

Jefferson’s gunboats, Nixon’s inflation-busting created Trump’s $9 billion in rescissions