Photographers who followed the civil rights movement through Mississippi shot thousands of frames. A handful of famous images made the history books. For 60 years, many of the people in the rest of those frames have gone unnamed.
Living near vacant properties invaded by the unhoused is a problem for many in the city. One Jackson homeowner is seeing his neighborhood ruined by a house owned by an outside company.
A landowner has interest from Kroger in a piece of property in Gluckstadt, but a deed restriction would have to be lifted before the grocery chain could build there.
The Mississippi Department of Transportation is planning lighting repairs along I-55 as part of a larger effort to improve lighting on interstates in the Jackson metro area. A project to repair lighting along I-55 from Fortification Street to Woodrow Wilson Drive is scheduled to be let in January 2027.
Pearl High School is moving down to Class 6A, and the school’s athletic director said Pearl will work to keep the rivalry games Pirates fans circle on the calendar.
The trials of three former Jackson police officers charged in Keith Murriel’s death have been delayed more than 20 times since their indictments in 2023.
A Hinds County judge says she plans to sentence Nancy and Zachary New to house arrest in the state’s welfare fraud case, frustrated that the mother and son have waited more than four years to be sentenced.
