A new report by Affordable Contractors Insurance ranks Mississippi as the eighth most risky state for workers, citing low wages, limited unemployment benefits, and poor workplace protections. The ...

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves had a laugh at the expense of the United Kingdom after an analysis by Polymarket revealed how impoverished the nation's people are in comparison to Americans.

LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) -- The two nuns who were killed in Mississippi were by all accounts some of the most friendly, helpful people in town, cooking and caring for anyone in their poor community -- ...

Gangs, violence and sexual assaults are a problem in three Mississippi prisons because the facilities are short-staffed and inmates are sometimes left unsupervised, the U.S. Department of Justice said ...

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JACKSON, Miss. — In Mississippi, where elected officials have a long history of praising self-sufficiency and condemning federal antipoverty programs, a welfare scandal has exposed how millions of ...

For the past five years, anybody who broke a leg, had a heart attack or came down with appendicitis in rural Quitman County, Mississippi, had to be driven at least 30 minutes to the east or west to ...