The Mississippi State Board of Education announced changes to grading and passing requirements Thursday in response to the difficulties presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Metro Nashville Police Department released the names of the officers whose quick actions likely saved lives in the Christmas morning explosion.

Southaven police say a toddler who was abandoned with a bag of clothes and a note Monday morning is now in the custody of Mississippi Child Protective Services.

Last week, coach Kermit Davis tested positive. A news release Monday says there have been additional positive cases and contact tracing is ongoing.

Helena-West Helena Officer Travis Wallace, 41, died after a gun battle with a wanted suspect who was later captured in Mississippi by U.S. Marshals.

Governor Tate Reeves has released a statement concerning the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department saying they will not enforce a state mandate on social distancing nor issue citations for not wearing a mask.

A Mississippi man and woman are behind bars after deputies found a neglected newborn.

Investigators in Senatobia, Mississippi are looking for information after an infant possibly ‘shot herself.'

A Marshall County man has been charged after intentionally setting his girlfriend on fire, resulting in her death, according to the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office.

Southaven police officers responded to a call of a dog being thrown off of Highway 302 overpass at I-55 on Tuesday at 11 a.m.

While President Donald Trump pledged to get a coronavirus vaccine to the American people before the end of the year, Mississippi’s leading infectious disease expert said that’s not likely.

Messages of “Defund the Police” and “BLM” mark the wall outside Graceland on Elvis Presley Boulevard and the Levitt Shell in Overton Park.

Undercover operations conducted by the Hernando Police Department lead to the arrest of nearly two dozen individuals who were allegedly attempting to meet children for sexual purposes.

Ole Miss says 11 are members of the same team. All 14 are currently in isolation.

Three people have been indicted by a grand jury for the fatal dog mauling of a 59-year-old woman in April.

Family, friends, and coworkers gathered Sunday to say goodbye to the Desoto County sheriff’s deputy who drowned while saving his son.

Scenes from a chaotic night at the Golf and Games Family Park on Summer Avenue are being shared all over social media.

Elvis Presley’s “Sun Sessions” guitar, which is currently on display at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, will be up for auction this week.

Controversy over a confederate statue in Oxford, Mississippi continues.

Award-winning Singer Lizzo decided to give back to DeSoto County hospital employees who have been on the frontlines throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Confederate statue on Court Square in Oxford will remain right where it has stood since 1907 after a unanimous vote Monday night by the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors.

The Gatlinburg SkyBridge is looking very patriotic for the Fourth of July.

A FedEx spokesperson released a statement Thursday afternoon, saying, “We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name.”

The Mississippi Gaming Commission is requiring all players, spectators and guests to wear a mask inside Mississippi casinos starting Friday at 8 p.m.

UPDATE -- Braelee Rayne Trapp has been found safe.

Hunter Carlstrom was wanted in connection with the May 7 murder of James Sarotelli in Smithville, Arkansas.

With the lawsuit dropped, Memphis Greenspace can move forward with legal proceedings to move the bodies of Forrest and his wife who were buried under his statue.

As of Monday, four inmates have tested positive -- two at the Mississippi State Penitentiary and two at Winston-Choctaw County Regional Correctional Facility. Two more tests are pending -- one at Marshall County Correctional Facility and one at Delta Correctional Facility.

According to the sheriff’s office, the deputy was trying to stop two suspects in the stolen vehicle on Highway 22. A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office says the suspects ran over the deputy.

A second St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital employee has been confirmed to have the novel coronavirus.