Happy 300th birthday to the city of Natchez, Mississippi! To celebrate, Mississippi Development Authority executive director Glenn McCullough Jr. noted on Twitter that Natchez had the most millionaires per capita of an U.S. city before the Civil War. That’s a lot of millionaires—where do you think they got all their money?

After a legal battle spanning more than five decades, a federal judge ruled on Friday that Cleveland, Mississippi must completely desegregate their schools, The New York Times reports.

The British government has a new message for vacationers hoping to soak up sun in the American South: Watch out, y’all.

Donald Trump, purveyor of mediocre meats, is projected to win the Republican primaries in Mississippi and Michigan.

The Associated Press has projected Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic primary in Mississippi. According to exit polls, Clinton won nearly 9 out of 10 black voters.

Police reported Sunday that a shooting at a Mardi Gras parade in Pass Christian, Mississippi, left two men dead and four other people injured.

A waitress at a Waffle House in Biloxi, Mississippi, was shot in the head early Friday morning, the Sun Ledger reports, after she asked a customer to put out his cigarette.

American democracy in action: Mississippi pols will literally “draw straws” today to settle a House race that ended in a tie earlier this month. The stakes are high—the lucky winner will determine whether the GOP gets a supermajority and thus the chance to more fully destroy the state’s already meager safety net.

Authorities in Mississippi say the man suspected of fatally shooting a woman he lived with and a Delta State University professor on Monday has spoken with police, telling an officer “he’s not going to jail,” the Associated Press reports.

The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has announced that it will look into the death of 39-year-old Jonathan Sanders, who died after an altercation with a police officer in Clarke County on Wednesday, the Guardian reports.

On Monday, the Republican Speaker of Mississippi’s House of Representatives said that the Confederate battle flag “needs to be removed” from the state flag’s design, calling the symbol “a point of offense,” the Associated Press reports.

Three people were arrested after two police officers were shot during a traffic stop Hattiesburg, Mississippi on Saturday night, the Associated Press reports. Both officers died of their wounds at Forrest General Hospital.

The FBI has stepped in to investigate the disappearance of Otis Byrd, a 54-year-old African American man who was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi Thursday.

TMZ reports that rapper Afroman—famous for sporting an afro and having gotten high—was arrested in Biloxi, Mississippi Tuesday night after laying out a female fan who snuck on stage.

This week, a Mississippi grand jury indicted Justice Court Judge Bill Weisenberger for felony assault on a vulnerable adult after he allegedly struck a mentally disabled black man and yelled, "Run, nigger, run."

Chris Epps resigned as head of the Mississippi Department of Corrections this week after more than a decade on the job. An indictment against him says he spent much of that time systematically robbing the state.

(For Mike Brown, Lennon Lacy, Eric Garner, Renisha McBride, and so on, and so on ...)

Even in 2014, it is still possible to come across facts about the American justice system that stagger even the most cynical of minds. For example: do you know how long people are sitting in jail in Mississippi without being charged with a crime?

A federal judge ruled today that Alabama's abortion clinic law is unconstitutional. The law, passed last year, mandates that abortion doctors have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, and it would have closed three of the state's five abortion clinics. The law never went into effect, so the clinics have stayed open.

The Fifth Circuit has cast doubt on a Mississippi law which, by imposing burdensome licensing requirements on doctors associated with abortion clinics, threatened to shutter the state's last abortion clinic.