A three-judge federal panel on Tuesday ordered the Mississippi Legislature to come up with a new Senate district map in ...

Once the Legislature sent its new plan to the court, the NAACP challenged the redraw in the Northeast Mississippi and Desoto County areas but not the Hattiesburg area district changes.

(Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file) The DeSoto County Board of Supervisors is moving forward with plans to expand the Bridgetown Fire District, a decision that officials say could lead to lower ...

The panel, comprised of U.S. District ... County solution “yokes high-turnout white communities in the Hernando area of DeSoto County to several poorer, predominantly black towns in the ...

The unanimous ruling gave the all-Republican State Board of Election Commissioners seven days to propose a new map for the DeSoto County area, with the state facing a time crunch to hold special ...