Before this year's midterm election where Scott Colom stunned Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, being a senator in Mississippi was sure-fire job security.

Congressional Republicans are acknowledging the depth of their defeat in the midterm elections but showing little appetite for a wholesale break from President Donald Trump.

Romance scammers stole a Mississippi man's photos to create hundreds of fake online profiles used to trick lovesick men and women out of their money. When many victims realize they've been duped, they begin hunting for the face behind those profiles. That led them to Hunter Bigham of Tupelo.

Family Dollar will pay $63 million to settle state and federal allegations that it routinely charged customers more at the register than the prices displayed on its shelves, website and mobile app.

The Jackson City Council could consider whether to censure Councilman Kenneth Stokes for remarks he made to two women during a heated debate over a moratorium on data centers.