mississippi

Friday, shocking video from Jackson, Mississippi showed muddy water coming out of the faucet of a home. This showed how bad the water problem is in the poor city.

The Satanic Temple is warning Mississippi that it will pursue a lawsuit against the state if it puts the phrase “In God We Trust” on its flag, as is currently planned. Late last month, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed legislation into law retiring the state flag, which had featured the Confederate flag symbol for …

The Mississippi legislature may have the votes necessary to change the state flag, which currently features the emblem of the Confederacy. “Supporters of a flag change worked through the night to secure the remaining votes necessary for a successful vote to change the state flag,” State Representative Robert Johnson III, a Democrat, told NBC on …

JACKSON, Miss. — A nonprofit group caught up in an embezzlement scheme in Mississippi used federal welfare money to pay former NFL quarterback Brett Favre $1.1 million for multiple speaking engagements but Favre did not show up for the events, the state auditor said Monday. Details about payments to Favre are included in an audit …

Life imitated art for “Paradise Lost” star Bridget Regan when she filmed the new Spectrum drama. “My character uproots her life from Palo Alto, Calif, and moves out to Mississippi, and so there was this symbiotic thing of me and my character going through the same thing — taking it all in and noticing all …

Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach’s insensitive tweet already earned him widespread rebuke. Now it may have cost him a player. On Wednesday night, the recently hired Leach tweeted a meme of an old lady knitting with the caption: “After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit him a scarf…,” though …

Tough-guy director Paul Schrader is furious at “pussified producers” for shutting down his latest movie set after an actor tested positive for the Chinese virus — saying he’d rather “die on the job.”