According to Scott County Sheriff Mike Lee, she and other members received court-ordered letters not to attend services any longer due to a prior altercation months before.

Rankin County residents packed Brandon City Hall to discuss whether a Confederate statue belongs in the Mississippi town’s center where a bulk of local traffic flows.

The 37-foot-tall granite memorial, which features a Confederate soldier at its peak, was erected in 1907 by the Brandon Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was listed on the ...

As Pastor Bennie Brown sat in the bright red pews of St. James Missionary Baptist, just a few feet away from the podium where ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections opened its newest chapel for inmates.The white church features a tall steeple with a cross perched on top at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in ...

Theodise Tate was born October 1, 1943 in Sledge, Mississippi, to the late Sye Clayton and Crillie Tate. He departed this life on June 14, 2025, at his home in Blytheville at the age of 81. He was ...

The First Christian Church at State and High Streets, built in 1950, is being demolished Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. According to Mississippi Department of Archives and History historians, the building ...

Nevin Sledge, a beloved figure in the community and a man of many talents, passed away on October 13, 2023, in Cleveland, Mississippi. Nevin was born on February 6, 1921, in Alva, Mississippi ...

Mary Evelyn Starr, born in Clarksdale, MS on May 5, 1965, passed away at her home in Sledge, MS on June 3, 2023. She attended North Delta School and graduated from Lee Academy in Clarksdale.

Baltimore church extends helpful hand all the way to Mississippi Share Updated: 12:30 PM EDT Apr 3, 2023 Infinite Scroll Enabled ...

Two officers, including Mr. Haley, began punching Mr. Sledge and a third officer picked him up and slammed him down, according to the handwritten complaint Mr. Sledge filed in federal court.

Sledge, 34. alleged in a 2016 lawsuit that ex-Memphis cop Demetrius Haley, 30, who then worked as a correction officer, took part in the May 16, 2015 beatdown inside the Shelby County Division of ...