Legendary moonshiner Perry Martin died in 1968 and so did the decades of illegal distribution of the his spirits he engineered from the tiny hamlet of Rosedale along the Mississippi River in the Delta ...

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) announced the opening of Alligator Wildlife Management ...

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Delta Fiber LLC, Delta Electric Power Association’s wholly owned broadband subsidiary doing business as DE LightSpeed, is expanding its existing high speed, fiber internet network to additional areas ...

GREENVILLE, Miss. — I recently moved to the heart and soul of the Mississippi Delta, the birthplace of the blues. Signs of this rich music heritage are all around me in this part of the state — the ...

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CLARKSDALE, Miss. — Bluesman Robert Johnson played the guitar with such genius that legend has it his talent was a gift from the devil in exchange for the musician's soul. That deal was done, ...

Rolling Fork, Miss., like much of the Delta, had already been wrecked by disinvestment and decline before a giant tornado swept through in late March, leaving residents to ponder whether to rebuild or ...