The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and Prentiss Police assisted the Jefferson Davis County Sheriff’s Office in the case. Sheriff Ron Strickland has not answered repeated calls from WDAM for ...

Mississippi is one of four states to still celebrate the holiday, which was established in 1886 following the end of the ...

My grandfather Oury Berry committed his own horrific act of violence in 1947 during his first term as sheriff of Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi. Then and now, Mississippi sheriffs wield a ...

Continuing a decades-old annual tradition, Governor Tate Reeves declared April as “Confederate Heritage Month,” the Beauvoir ...

Jefferson Davis County School District contains 4 schools and 1,279 students. The district’s minority enrollment is 90%. Also, 69.1% of students are economically disadvantaged. The student body ...

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Columbus, Miss., has opened its Civil War-era homes to visitors. Some say the event should reflect more the oppression behind ...

BROOKHAVEN — Mississippi designates the last Monday of April as a state holiday for Confederate Memorial Day. The last Monday ...

Proposed bill in Alabama Legislature seeks to add Juneteenth as a state holiday, while also eliminating Confederate President ...