LELAND, Miss. -- High school homecoming celebrations in Mississippi ended in gunfire, with two separate shootings on opposite sides of the state Friday night that left at least eight people dead and ...

A redacted copy of a Leland Police Department incident report reveals new details regarding a weapon in 17-year-old Kadarius Smith's fatal encounter with an unnamed Leland police officer. City ...

Four men have been arrested in connection with a mass shooting in Mississippi that left six dead and at least 20 wounded during a high school homecoming weekend celebration, officials said. Three men ...

Four people were killed and at least 20 others were injured when “hundreds of shots” erupted in the wake of a Mississippi homecoming football game, officials said. The shooting occurred around ...

One century-old weekly newspaper in Mississippi is set to close its doors by the end of July, shortly after two other newspapers confirmed to the Clarion Ledger their closures. The Leland Progress in ...

LELAND, Miss. — Nine people have now been arrested in connection with a mass shooting in the Mississippi Delta town of Leland that left six people dead, an FBI special agent said Thursday. Robert ...

The transition in the small Mississippi Delta town was smoother in comparison to most other school districts in a state that was never going to accept integration without argument. The onset of the ...

JACKSON, MS — A fifth person has been arrested and charged in connection with a mass shooting in rural Mississippi that left six people dead and at least 10 others injured, authorities said Oct. 14.

"That's the part that I look back on, I think in some respects, with the most regret, because nobody really questioned it. It just was what it was." - Judge Pam Pepper on her school years in Leland, ...