ITTA BENA, MS - Nina Schiks became the first female in MVSU history to score as she went a perfect 4-for-4 on PAT attempts in ...

Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU) announced plans to increase its security measures ahead of their homecoming ...

KJ Cooper threw two touchdown passes to Kerien Charlo, Jonathan Lewis had two touchdown runs and Mississippi Valley State beat independent Lincoln (California) 61-10 for its first victory of the seaso ...

Teniya Morant received her first Division I offer from Mississippi Valley State, and now she will be attending school in Itta Bena, Mississippi. Why is it important that Ja Morant's younger sister has ...

ITTA BENA, Miss. – A decade ago, the sole grocery store in the city of Itta Bena shuttered. The last bank left a few years later, followed by the pharmacy – lifelines for a small, rural community. Now ...

ITTA BENA, Miss. (AP) Marcus Romain scored 20 points and Mississippi Valley State won its first game of the season, 66-60, over Arkansas Pine Bluff on Monday ITTA BENA, Miss. (AP) Marcus Romain scored ...

The announcement comes after an outbreak of shootings across the state last weekend, one mass shooting in Lelena, Mississippi, claiming the lives of six people.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Leflore County Alternative School is a public school located in Itta Bena, MS, which is in a fringe rural setting. The student population of Leflore County Alternative School is unavailable and the ...

ITTA BENA, Mississippi -- Former Itta Bena police chief Ted Washington is now a Leflore County sheriff's deputy. The town of about 2,000 residents shuttered its police department at the end of July in ...

Upset over high electricity bills, residents of Itta Bena, Miss., complained, only to discover the city was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to its power supplier. By Allyson Waller Seeing a ...