JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Friday set a special election to fill a state House seat vacated by Democratic Rep. Sonya Williams-Barnes, who resigned earlier this month.

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Gilbert Mason Jr., who grew up in the civil rights movement and became a physician and a Black and civil rights historian, has died at age 68.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 3" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 4" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — These Mississippi lotteries were drawn Thursday:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Match 5" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 4" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 3" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — These Mississippi lotteries were drawn Wednesday:

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BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — A petition calls for rebranding a manmade lake in central Mississippi by removing the name of a racist former governor and replacing it with the name of a longtime journalist who wrote about hunting and fishing.

RIDGELAND, Miss. (AP) — A suburb of Mississippi's state capital has named a new police chief.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 4" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 3" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Match 5" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — These Mississippi lotteries were drawn Tuesday:

PEARL, Miss. (AP) — A 20-year-old Mississippi woman who faces an upgraded charge of capital murder in the death of her 2-month-old daughter is on suicide watch and is being held in isolation at the Rankin County Jail, authorities said Tuesday.

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — A Catholic elementary school that primarily serves Black and Hispanic families in the Mississippi Delta is closing after more than 70 years, following a sex abuse scandal, declining enrollment and a steep decrease in donations.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 4" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 3" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — These Mississippi lotteries were drawn Monday:

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man pleaded guilty Monday to a federal wire fraud charge for misusing more than $6 million in business loans through a pandemic relief program, prosecutors said.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Veterans Affairs Board is being run by an interim leader as the executive director and his chief of staff are both resigning.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — These Mississippi lotteries were drawn Sunday:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 4" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 3" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has revised its landlord-tenant law to give renters time to gather their belongings from a home before being forced to leave, after a federal judge ruled that the previous law was unconstitutional.

HOUSTON, Miss. (AP) — New Hope Church, on a country road halfway between Houlka and Okolona, was founded on Oct. 6, 1866, less than a year after the Civil War ended.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Alkendria “Desiree” McNair’s passion for technology began with video games and evolved into an interest in 3-D printing houses.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 4" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 3" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Match 5" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — These Mississippi lotteries were drawn Saturday:

PEARL, Miss. (AP) — A 20-year-old woman is in custody accused of repeatedly throwing her 9-week-old daughter to the ground before running into the woods when officers arrived.

VANCLEAVE, Miss. (AP) — Assistant teachers in Mississippi will receive a $2,000 pay raise starting July 1, but one school district could make its assistants work a longer schedule.

ABERDEEN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi woman has been found not guilty in the killing of her 14-month-old stepdaughter.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Catherine Pierce tries to begin each of her classes with a question.

NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — Jeremy Houston, the founder of Miss-Lou Heritage Group and Tours, has recently released volumes four and five of his ongoing Black history series about people from Natchez.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 4" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 3" game were:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — These Mississippi lotteries were drawn Friday:

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Mississippi Lottery's "Cash 4" game were: