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- Child care workers and children, parents and legislators stressed the need to protect access to child care during the Child Care Matters: Keep Mississippi Working press conference held at the state Capitol, Thursday, April 24, 2025. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
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Grace: Advocate- Fix is within reach for Mississippi’s broken child care system
By CATHY GRACE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,03/26/26-3:58PM , 548 Reads 7,421 Statewide
Below is an opinion column by Cathy Grace:
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Steve Knight steps down after 44-year run as men’s basketball coach at William Carey
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,03/26/26-3:54PM , 423 Reads 14,963 Statewide
Steve Knight became the head men’s basketball coach at William Carey College way back in July of 1982 at the age of 25.
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- Rep. Sam Creekmore, chair of the House Public Health and Human Services Committee, speaks during a press conference on ibogaine at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. Mississippi lawmakers are considering whether to fund clinical trials of the drug as a treatment for opioid addiction. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
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Legislators send bill to Reeves to fund ibogaine mental health clinical trials
By ALLEN SIEGLER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,03/26/26-3:52PM , 546 Reads 7,595 Statewide
Lawmakers sent a bill to Gov. Tate Reeves for signature Wednesday to fund clinical trials related to the psychedelic drug ibogaine, action that could add $5 million of Mississippi’s opioid settlement money to study the drug.
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- Ted "Teddy" DiBiase Jr., center, walks with his wife Kristen Tynes and his attorney Scott Gilbert to the Thad Cochran United States Courthouse on Thursday, March 19, 2026, in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
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Greed or chaos? Jurors will determine if taking high-dollar welfare contracts was criminal
By ANNA WOLFE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,03/26/26-3:50PM , 285 Reads 4,075 Statewide
One spring day in 2018, entrepreneur and former WWE wrestler Ted “Teddy” DiBiase Jr. “became an instant millionaire,” a federal prosecutor told jurors Thursday.

Eight years later, DiBiase sat stoically in a federal courtroom as his trial in a sprawling welfare scandal neared a close.
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