Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of the 20th century died Tuesday.

The girls basketball state semifinals begin this week in Lakeland. Here’s a look at the Holmes County-Hilliard game in the Rural classification.

Three people were killed and eight others were injured in central Mississippi when someone opened fire into a group of young people on a trail who were celebrating a school’s homecoming football game.

The Florida Highway Patrol arrested a 22-year-old woman from Georgia suspected of firing a rifle at multiple cars on Interstate 10 in Holmes County on Monday.

(CNN) - A man suspected of killing a pregnant woman reported missing in Mississippi last week has been arrested, the Holmes County sheriff's office said. Terrence Kendale Sample was arrested Monday and charged with murder, kidnapping, and capital murder in the death of 21-year-old Makayla Winston, who was about nine months pregnant, the sheriff's office said in a statement. Holmes County Sheriff Willie March did not confirm whether Sample had any connection with the victim. Winston was last seen on Thursday leaving her home in Goodman, north of Jackson, Holmes County Sheriff Willie March said. Her mother, Yvetty Brown, told CNN affiliate WLBT her daughter was "heading to show the sonogram to the baby's father" that night.