The Yazoo Herald was singled out for General Excellence as the leading newsroom within its state division during the annual ...

Bodies will be exhumed this month in an area of the University of Mississippi Medical Center that was once the State Hospital for the Insane.As part of the years-long Asylum Hill Project, a team of ...

Technology later predicted that thousands of patients from the former State Hospital for the Insane, which operated from 1855 to 1935, were buried there."It was just mind-blowing, honestly," said ...

In 1900, the institution’s name was changed to something less incendiary: Mississippi State Insane Hospital. But by the late 1920s, the Mississippi State legislature appropriated funds to build ...

Mississippi is one of 10 states, all with Republican-led legislatures, that continue to reject federal funding to expand health insurance for the poor, intensifying financial pressure on hospitals.

If Greenwood Leflore Hospital closes, residents in the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions in the U.S., will have to travel farther for health care.