A man accused of a Mississippi synagogue arson confessed to his father, saying he "finally got them," the FBI said. Stephen Pittman faces charges.

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Today, Hazlehurst has clawed that figure to 35 percent. And Mississippi has emerged as one of the best places in the country for a poor child to get an education. Mississippi has gone from 49th in the country on national tests in 2013, to a top 10 state for fourth graders learning to read — even as test scores have fallen almost everywhere else.

A Mississippi man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he killed six people during a late night rampage. Daricka M.

The science of reading was a “key piece of what we did,” said Rachel Canter, the longtime leader of education reform group Mississippi First who now works at the Progressive Policy Institute, said to the Times. But people are “missing the forest for the trees if they are only looking at that.”

Verizon customers in Mississippi, more states, reported technical problems getting and receiving calls Wednesday. Why? When will the outage be resolved?

SOUTH MISSISSIPPI, Miss. (WLOX) - America250 Mississippi and the Mississippi Humanities Council awarded $20,000 in Legacy Grants to five local organizations across the Gulf Coast to preserve Mississippi’s role in the American story.

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