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 | Frank Corder •

May 9, 2025

Mississippi Supreme Court allows Favre’s defamation lawsuit against Auditor White to continue

News | Frank Corder •

May 9, 2025

Hyde-Smith draws GOP challenger as Democrats target her Mississippi U.S. Senate seat

News | Frank Corder •

May 9, 2025

Thompson calls on Trump to “put politics aside,” nominate a qualified FEMA Administrator

Business

Business | Frank Corder •

April 23, 2025

Amazon locating inbound cross dock operations in Marshall County, creating 1,000 jobs

Business | Lynne Jeter •

April 17, 2025

GE Aerospace moving at warp speed in Batesville

Business | Lynne Jeter •

April 15, 2025

ABB doubling size of operations in Tate County

Culture

Culture | Ben Smith •

May 9, 2025

William Carey’s Bobby Halford passes Ron Polk

Culture | Hunter Estes •

May 9, 2025

The American Pope: Leo XIV emerges from Conclave

Culture | Susan Marquez •

May 9, 2025

Fireflies to light up the night at Waller Craft Center in Ridgeland

Opinion

Opinion | Roger Wicker •

May 9, 2025

Trump-Zelensky agreement could be pivotal moment toward ending Putin’s war

Opinion | Bishop Vincent Mathews , Nathan Sanders •

May 9, 2025

The Church’s next mission field: Universal school choice

Opinion | Sid Salter •

May 8, 2025

Four decades later, a cold case arrest may fill in the blank on Shondra May’s tombstone