Birthing centers, chemical dependency facilities, and more could be exempted from CON under the legislation approved by a ...

The state House of Representatives is slated to consider giving the public the right to seek ballot initiatives except on abortion and  other issues.

Autherine Lucy Foster made history on Feb. 3, 1956, becoming the first Black student to attend classes at the University of ...

Previous House proposals also would bar voters from considering abortion issues. However, the Senate has blocked voters regaining any right to ballot initiatives.

Lowe courts have allowed the ban to remain in place. The Supreme Court declined to look at the most recent appeal of the ban, which claims the law is cruel and unusual punishment.

A Democratic state senator in Mississippi has reportedly received death threats after introducing a bill that would make ...

A Mississippi senator has introduced a bill aimed at banning men from participating in certain sexual activities if they do ...

As President Trump takes a hammer to reproductive rights, a Mississippi legislator proposes making it illegal to ejaculate ...

The Republican leader of the Illinois House and five voters on Tuesday filed a lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to throw out the legislative district map as unconstitutionally drawn to favor ...

The Supreme Court's decision overturned a lower court's decision, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that ...

MISSISSIPPI, (WCBI) – The U.S. Supreme Court is taking zero action on Mississippi’s voting laws. A group of people who ...

The Supreme Court on Monday left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery ...