About a third of Americans think Tennessee should try to execute Christa Pike again after her failed execution in September, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Elon Musk says he spends four days a week in Memphis working to bring the Colossus 2 supercomputer cluster online as the project faces a federal lawsuit over turbines
Amendment 2 on the ballot this November would prevent the state of Tennessee from ever implementing a statewide property tax by enshrining a ban in the State Constitution.
Gov. Tate Reeves announced a major leadership change atop Mississippi’s primary law enforcement agency, appointing Capitol Police Chief Bo Luckey as the new commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.
Alexander McClain has experienced homelessness since he was 14 years old. After leaving Texas, he journeyed on foot through Mississippi and Tennessee before arriving in Northeast Arkansas, hauling a cart with supplies and his fishing poles. He occasionally got a ride, but the rest was on foot.
A Texas man is charged after agents found more than 43 pounds of meth in a suitcase in Memphis. Investigators say the drugs were being transported from Houston.
Authorities have released the transcript of the 911 call made from Riverbend Maximum Security Institution the night of Christa Pike’s attempted execution.
The Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference announced its support of Constitutional Amendment 1, which will appear on the Nov. 3 general election ballot.
A 911 call transcript shows it took more than half an hour for first responders to reach Christa Pike following a failed execution attempt on Sept. 30.
Memphis city councilwoman and Tennessee’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jerri Green will face off against independent gubernatorial candidates David Hatley and Lauren Pinkston in a debate ahead of the midterm election.
Gov. Tate Reeves has proclaimed Oct. 12-17, 2026, as Fall Severe Weather Preparedness Week in Mississippi, encouraging residents to prepare for the state’s secondary severe weather season.
During a virtual meeting Thursday, the state-appointed oversight board discussed financial accountability, outside consultants and potential leadership changes.
Crews broke ground in Osceola Wednesday afternoon on a 3,000 foot project on the Osceola Harbor Extension. The project will expand the harbor to accommodate the rapidly expanding grain and steel industry.
Mississippi is among the top three states in the nation for breast cancer deaths, according to the state health department, and health officials say the problem isn’t awareness, it’s access.
Five years later, Byrd-Snell still has not received a death certificate. She said the funeral home she paid to bring her husband home told her the certificate was never filed.
Here’s what we know about the timeline of events leading up to the discovery of 18-year-old Nolan Wells’ body on Horn Island and the aftermath in days following.
Some members of congress sent a letter to the U.S. National Park Service, asking the agency to open a “prompt and exhaustive investigation” into Wells’ death.
A childhood cancer survivor is turning her own journey into a way to give back to the hospital that helped her family through some of its most difficult years.
Friday’s hearing will not deliver a final ruling on the merits of the lawsuit, but it will determine who manages the district’s day-to-day governance while the court case proceeds.
An investigation into the deaths of two Ole Miss students found that drugs banned by local, state and federal law remain available on store shelves at convenience stores, gas stations and online shops.
Mississippi safety leaders and lawmakers are calling for a crackdown on kratom after investigators connected the deaths of two Ole Miss students last week to a suspected form of the drug.
A Tennessee man has been charged with murder of a first responder after the fatal shooting of a Kentucky trooper in Warren County, Kentucky, on Monday.
Officials are still waiting on toxicology reports following two deaths at Ole Miss, but Mississippi doctors and lawmakers say the dangers of kratom are already clear.
Mississippi hunters heading into deer season this year have a new option for feeding deer, but wildlife officials say several old rules and a complete ban in some parts of the state still apply. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks changed its supplemental feeding rule to allow hunters to broadcast feed on the ground, rather than requiring it to come from a stationary feeder.
One lieutenant and three deputies with the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department have been cleared of any wrongdoing after a noise complaint in October 2025 led to the shooting death of an 18-year-old.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump and digital forensic experts are scheduled to hold a news conference Thursday to announce new findings recovered from the cellphone of Nolan Xavier Wells, whose death remains under scrutiny.
By Hannah Kozlowski, Jacob Gallant and Kaitlyn Miller
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said state agencies are helping expedite toxicology reports following the deaths of two Ole Miss students, as black ribbons hang outside fraternity houses and campus mourns.
A grand jury in Carroll County has indicted the bus driver involved in a March crash that killed two Kenwood Middle School students traveling on a school field trip.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has confirmed to WBBJ that they are assisting the Newbern Police Department in investigating a kidnapping in Newbern.
