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Ben Crump, the attorney for the family of Nolan Xavier Wells, plans to reveal the preliminary results of an independent autopsy on the 18-year-old's body at a press conference in Chicago on Wednesday morning.

Nolan Wells' official state autopsy will be withheld from the public until it is presented to a grand jury, Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath announced late Thursday.

In her first two weeks as the Mississippi Free Press' Gulf Coast Bureau reporter, Amy Schafer has already been on the ground covering a major story that has garnered national attention and a tropical storm.

Bart Edmiston, a former teammate of Nolan Wells on the Ocean Springs High School football team, is set to pursue defamation claims after alleging that a flurry of unfounded accusations on social media led to a death threat.

Jackson police are investigating the death of a Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Mississippi's capital city on Monday night.

The woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home is 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, the Hinds County Coroner's Office said on Thursday. Authorities have not said whether or not they suspect foul play.

Mississippi authorities have investigated other high-profile cases involving tree-hanging deaths in the past year.

A staunch segregationist will no longer be the namesake for the University of Southern Mississippi's football stadium after the Mississippi Institutions

I was standing in front of my bathroom mirror getting ready for a college house party the night I heard a TV broadcaster announce that Whitney Houston had died.

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