With Scott Colom’s victory in the U.S. Senate race, Mississippi voters reject a state history of Dixiecrats and segregation in favor of the first Black senator from the state since Reconstruction.

Collierville voters can begin casting ballots — again — as early as next week.

As DeSoto County officials were still counting votes, supporters of Scott Colom began celebrating as news outlets declared the Democratic challenger the winner in Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race.

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Colom’s narrow victory is a seismic shift in Mississippi, which has been controlled mostly by white conservatives for generations, and it will echo through the country as well.

Roy Cash Jr., a retired Navy pilot and the nephew of singer Johnny Cash, was the featured speaker at Wednesday’s annual Veterans Day ceremony in Bartlett.

The Bartlett YMCA will add an outdoor summer experience, but shortfalls in funding have scaled plans back from the original concept.

After two days of testimony, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality ruled in favor of itself, arguing it didn’t make a mistake by issuing permits to SpaceXAI for a permanent power plant in Southaven.

The U.S. Department of Justice awarded Jackson $64 million as part of a “flagship effort,” a peek at what could be the administration’s new strategy beyond the Memphis Safe Task Force.

The city’s expenses are up, but revenues — mostly local property taxes — are up, too. 

Construction has been slow-going for this Holiday Inn Express. But officials now have a target completion date.

Walls, Mississippi, is home to approximately 1,400 residents and, right now at least, one of the nation’s many battles over data centers. 

Germantown watched other municipalities switch their streetlights to LEDs. Now, the suburb is going through the process.

Jabil Inc. announced today it is looking to hire more than 300 people for a variety of roles at its artificial intelligence-infrastructure manufacturing plant in Byhalia, Mississippi.

“A teacher advocate all the way — teacher and student,” John Aitken, the first superintendent of Collierville Schools, said.

Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race remains undecided as Democrat Scott Colom’s lead continues to grow. Outstanding affidavit and absentee ballots in DeSoto County and across the state are a key reason why.

State legislation earlier this year added two suburban voting members to the MLGW board, but a Lakeland commissioner wonders if his city doesn’t deserve a seat too.

Three suburban cities elected mayors on Tuesday, including one who will move into the office his father once occupied. Meanwhile, a race in Lakeland was pretty close.

Also, dessert shop I Love Waffle Cream is opening Downtown, and Little Petals now has a stand in FedExForum.

A Walls police officer was involved in a crash that killed three people on U.S. 61 in the small Mississippi town.

Mississippi’s tight U.S. Senate race between Democrat Scott Colom and incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith still remains undecided with Colom — as of Thursday morning —leading by less than a percentage point. 

Campbell Clinic will soon open a facility in Bartlett dedicated solely to physical therapy, the latest in a continued expansion across the region for the orthopedic provider.

The jury is still out on Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race, but DeSoto County voters did decide a number of local races.

The mayor-elect chose locally based professionals to address seven areas of city government. Their first meeting is Friday and their work will conclude before Jan. 1.

Reporter Jody Callahan joins us to talk about a fatal shooting in Millington and how the suspect was apprehended in a small European country about the size of New Jersey. 

The Lakeland Board of Commissioners will also have two new faces as Jeremy Burnett and Lindsey Reap won their first terms.