Lisa Shannon Fortenberry (age 72) passed away peacefully on November 12, 2025, in Burbank, Calif. She was born on October 27, 1953, to Barbara and Marshall Fortenberry in Jackson.

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Mississippi will resume normal issuance of food stamps immediately, the Mississippi Department of Human Services announced Thursday.

The latest results of Mississippi’s third-grade reading test show no dramatic declines in student performance. But they show ...

Mississippi is one step closer to receiving nearly $41 million from the prescription pain manufacturing company Purdue Pharma ...

Mississippi Department of Education officials say problems including financial mismanagement and accreditation violations ...

If this Saturday’s Florida-Ole Miss football game were a bowl game, we all know what its name would be: The Lane Kiffin Bowl. That’s because the worst kept secret in college football is that Florida ...