Columnist Sid Salter reflects on the life of Choctaw Books owner, the “go-to” expert in the state for appraisals of rare books, maps, documents, and ephemera.

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Mississippi faces a wide range of weather conditions with everything from snow to possible tornadoes in the forecast.

Editor’s Note: The following story contains images that may be disturbing to some people. JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Jackson police are seeking help to identify skeletal remains that were found in 2025.

More than 270,000 Americans, particularly those in the Pacific Northwest and Deep South, are experiencing widespread outages.

The metrics used included rates of depression, life satisfaction, income growth, poverty, work and commute times and more.

Sixty years ago, a tornado tore through South Jackson, leaving one of the state's deadliest disasters. It was one only two F5 tornadoes in Mississippi.

More than 500,000 acres had burned west and north of Lake McConaughy as of midmorning Saturday in the Morrill County Fire.