As 2025 is coming to an end and everyone is enjoying the holidays the Sun staff gathered to wish readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

The Jackson Zoo currently is receiving visitors and can accept payments with all three cash and credit cards and debit cards.

Mary Jane Dixon Fuerst, age 96, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, December 16, 2025.

On the day that I wrote this article I wasn’t quite sure where my inspiration would come from. There are the happy holidays that seem like the obvious thing to write about. It seems like everything ...

Robert St. John writes that Christmas doesn’t need snow, or pricy ornaments, or even working lights. It just needs a place like Bellewood Drive.

See what’s in the National Defense Authorization Act and how the defense spending will impact the Magnolia State.

Evan Turnage enters the race, saying he has access in Washington D.C. Bennie Thompson doesn’t have. The MS-02 race is shaping up to be one of Thompson’s most contested cycles in his 32 years in office ...

Congressman Bennie Thompson (D) was in damage control mode Friday after referring to the ambush-style attack in Washington, D.C. in November on two West Virginia National Guardsmen as an “unfortunate ...

Across the U.S., public pension unfunded liabilities generally decreased, falling about 9 percent from $1.62 trillion in 2024 to $1.48 trillion in 2025. That’s the good news. The unwelcome news is ...

Douglas Holtz-Eakin probably isn’t sitting at the popular table of today’s Washington Republicans because he worked for President George W. Bush two decades ago.

The normalization of violence against those one simply does not like continues apace. It is high-profile and deeply political. The solution is not easy because the disease has metastasized.

Eunice House Nabors passed away peacefully in her sleep at her home on December 16, 2025, where her son, Tom, had been her ...