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FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2020, file photo, housing activists erect a sign in Swampscott, Mass. A federal freeze on most evictions is set to expire soon. The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, was the only tool keeping millions of tenants in their homes. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
EXPLAINER: Will Wyoming do enough to limit evictions?

By Mead Gruver Jun. 25, 2021 03:01 PM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2020, file photo, housing activists erect a sign in Swampscott, Mass. A federal freeze on most evictions is set to expire soon. The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, was the only tool keeping millions of tenants in their homes. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
EXPLAINER: Mississippi's efforts to help low-income tenants

By Leah Willingham Jun. 25, 2021 12:25 PM EDT

An Impact Genome/AP-NORC poll finds 18% of Americans say they have only one person or no one they can rely on for personal support. Black and Hispanic Americans are especially likely to say so.
Poll: Millions in US struggle through life with few to trust

By Alexandra Olson Jun. 10, 2021 08:00 AM EDT

Southwest resumes flight service to Jackson after 7 years

Jun. 07, 2021 11:15 AM EDT
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Southwest Airlines has resumed flight service to Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport after a seven-year absence. ...

DIFFERENT CROP- This frame grab from video provided by Jackson Public School District shows Kennedy Hobbs, left. The 18-year-old Hobbs was shot three times at a Texaco gas station in Jackson, Miss., just hours after her graduation from Murrah High School. She died at the scene just before 11 p.m., Jackson Police Department spokesman Sam Brown said. (Jackson Public School District via AP)
Mississippi teen fatally shot hours after graduation

By Leah Willingham Jun. 02, 2021 06:24 PM EDT

Katrina Folks hugs her service dog, Princess, and speaks about her efforts to find work since losing her job in September because of the coronavirus pandemic, Friday, May 28, 2021, in Hattiesburg, Miss. Folks, the mother of an 11-year old son, used to do data entry at a law firm, but she has health issues that require her to work from home. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announced May 10 that the state will opt out of the $300-a-week federal supplement for people who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other programs that offered extended support for the unemployed, actions, directly affecting Folks. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi reckons with ending pay boost for the unemployed

By Leah Willingham May. 31, 2021 09:49 AM EDT

Neurosurgeon tapped for spot on state health board

May. 25, 2021 02:19 PM EDT
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Neurosurgeon Dr. John Daniel Davis IV has been nominated by Gov. Tate Reeves to serve on a board that governs public health in the state,...

Here’s what teens, adults say about addressing gun violence

By Isabelle Taft, The Sun-Herald May. 22, 2021 03:49 PM EDT
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — One by one, Gulfport Councilwoman Ella Holmes-Hines asked the children gathered around her what they want to be when they grow up. ...

Editorial Roundup: U.S.

By The Associated Press May. 19, 2021 01:25 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: May 19 The Boston Globe on U.S. aid to Israel should...

James "Lap" Baker, a 1970 Jackson State College graduate, speaks on May 13, 2021, in Jackson, Miss., about the May 15, 1970, incident where white local police and Mississippi Highway Patrol troopers marched onto campus of the historically Black school and opened fire on students, claiming they had seen a sniper. Baker is among about 70 graduates being honored as the school, now called Jackson State University, is holding a graduation ceremony 51 years after it canceled the 1970 commencement after the violence. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
A university honors its grads 51 years after police shooting

By Emily Wagster Pettus May. 14, 2021 01:23 PM EDT

Dr. Brittani James, left, and her twin sister Dr. Brandi Jackson stand for a portrait in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Sunday, May 2, 2021. The identical twin doctors who have fought bigotry all their lives have a lofty new mission: dismantling racism in medicine. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Twin MDs battle entrenched racism in the medical world

By Lindsey Tanner May. 13, 2021 11:54 AM EDT

Dr. Brandi Jackson poses for a portrait in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Sunday, May 2, 2021. Jackson and her twin, Dr. Brittani James, have taken on the medical establishment in pioneering work to eliminate racism in medicine. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Twin MDs battle entrenched racism in the medical world

By Lindsey Tanner May. 13, 2021 11:25 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 11, 2021, file photo, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves speaks with reporters after signing a bill at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. A new Mississippi law will make more inmates eligible for the possibility of parole. Gov. Reeves signed Senate Bill 2795 on Thursday, April 22, 2021, and it becomes law on July 1. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
Mississippi receiving virus relief money spread over 2 years

By Emily Wagster Pettus May. 10, 2021 04:43 PM EDT

The Chicago Cubs play the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park in a baseball game Thursday, April 29, 2021, in Atlanta. The Braves announced they plan to expand attendance limits to full capacity beginning May 7. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
The Latest: Washington expects full house for NFL home games

By The Associated Press May. 06, 2021 12:09 PM EDT

This 2018 photo shows Idaho's largest cultural fair, the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Festival, on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. This year's annual gathering was canceled as the coronavirus pandemic alters powwow season across the U.S. for a second year. (Mark Trahant/Indian Country Today via AP
Powwows across US adapt to pandemic for a second year

By Natasha Brennan Apr. 23, 2021 03:21 PM EDT

SWAC to hold football championship in Jackson, Mississippi

Apr. 21, 2021 07:26 PM EDT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Southwestern Athletic Conference is moving its championship game to a neutral site. The league announced...

Food boxes with fresh produce to be given away in Jackson

Apr. 18, 2021 11:51 AM EDT
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Thousands of food boxes of fresh produce will be available for pick-up at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson on Wednesday. The...

Editorial Roundup: New England

By The Associated Press Apr. 09, 2021 02:33 PM EDT
Hearst Connecticut Media Editorial Board. April 8, 2021. Editorial: CT must catch up with times on voting There shouldn...

Retired Hinds County Circuit Judge L. Breland Hilburn, is photographed June 12, 2015, presiding at a trial in Pascagoula, Miss. Hilburn was 79 when he died April 5, 2021, at University of Mississippi Medical Center of complications from COVID-19. Hilburn in 1994 handed down a life sentence to the white supremacist convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers. (Tim Isbell/The Sun Herald, via AP)
Judge from Mississippi civil rights murder trial dies at 79

Apr. 08, 2021 12:45 PM EDT

Mississippi receiving $29.7M from CDC for vaccinations

By Leah Willingham Apr. 06, 2021 12:13 PM EDT
JACKSON, Miss, (AP) — Mississippi is receiving about $29.7 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support coronavirus vaccination...

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