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Despite community ties, judge cites flight risk in denying bond to some...
U.S. Probation and Pretrial ServicesThe federal courthouse in Jackson A judge denied bail Wednesday to a Carthage mother of three — a member of a local Baptist church and former employee of the Pearl...
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Educators fear dramatic raids on first day of school will leave lasting trauma
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaImmigrants and their family members wait to seek legal help at Alpha and Omega Church of Deliverance in Forest, Miss., Saturday, August 10, 2019....
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ICE raid: ‘It’s a weird thing to balance … His desire to work is a good...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaImmigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained 680 workers at several Mississippi food processing plants in early August. Some were eventually...
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Sunday college football review including refrigerating players, coaching from...
Aaron Cornia/Mississippi StateMississippi State’s Kylin Hill runs for a big gain against Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns. These eyes watched 14 hours of college football Saturday, often viewing two games at...
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Federal judge: Mississippi violated the rights of people with mental illness
U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves gave the state and DOJ 30 days to come up with a list of names for the special master and a proposal for the special master’s role. The state has long violated...
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Chicken plants conspired to keep wages low at Southern plants, federal...
Spc. Daniel Schneider, U.S. ArmyA worker handles a chicken at a poultry processing facility. Some of the nation’s largest poultry processing companies, including several with plants in Mississippi,...
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Charter schools’ use of tax dollars upheld, Mississippi Supreme Court throws...
The Mississippi Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision that the way charter schools are funded is constitutional. There is not enough evidence to prove the way charter schools are funded in...
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Republicans Hosemann, Reeves at odds over Medicaid, teacher pay and gas tax....
Delbert Hosemann and Tate Reeves When it comes to infrastructure, health care and teacher pay raises, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann — who would be the state’s next...
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On a hot, hot day, ‘Dogs’ Kylin Hill was on fire
Liza King/MSU athleticsKylin Hill, 8, ran through and away from USM tacklers all day in State’s 38-15 victory at Scott Field. STARKVILLE – It will go down in the record books as Mississippi State 38,...
View ArticleMississippi Delta to gain second charter school
The charter school sector is continuing to expand outside of Jackson — on Monday, the Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board approved Mississippi’s ninth charter school to open in Greenwood....
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With humor and a lot of heart, ‘Into the Breeches!’ gets the literary party...
Michael George PhotographyNew Stage Theatre’s “Into the Breeches!” ensemble cast includes (from left) Jasmine A. Neal, Jo Ann Robinson, Annie Cleveland, Jessica Wilkinson, Emily Wright and Sarah Beth...
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Southeastern Louisiana Lions get 450 grand to play at Ole Miss, but they say...
SLU sportsSLU Lions quarterback Kelley Cole has already quarterbacked a team to victory at Ole Miss. Ole Miss will pay Southeastern Louisiana the princely sum of $450,000 to come to Oxford and play a...
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Jim Hood’s 14-month frontage road investigation of Tate Reeves stokes already...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For AmericaLt. Gov. Tate Reeves and Attorney General Jim Hood face each other in the Nov. 5 general election for governor. Less than two months from the...
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Two Jackson hospitals pay millions to avoid treating serious trauma patients,...
Mississippi’s statewide trauma care system is designed to create a network of hospitals capable of treating high-need emergency care patients. But two Jackson hospitals instead pay millions of dollars...
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Noah Saterstrom celebrates Mississippi Storytellers with narrative portraits
Marcy Fischer / Fischer GalleriesNoah Saterstrom is pictured with his two life-size portraits of Eudora Welty and William Faulkner at Fischer Galleries in Jackson. After taking a look at this year’s...
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Andy Ogletree makes Mississippi golf history
USGA/Chris KeaneAndy Ogletree, proudly sporting the winner’s trophy with his gold medal around his neck, is the first Mississippian to win the U.S. Amateur Championship. Mississippi’s first golf course...
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After past attempts by lawmakers have fallen short, Hood looks to take...
For years, community colleges in Mississippi have been working with local governments and nonprofit partners to provide free tuition for students. Jim Hood wants to take this model statewide. In an...
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Joe Biden receives 2020 endorsement from eight African American Mississippi...
Marc Nozell, FlickrDemocratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden Eight members of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday,...
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Hosemann, Hughes agree a lot during debate; neither will work to...
Both candidates for lieutenant governor – Democrat Jay Hughes and Republican Delbert Hosemann – said, if elected, they would not make it a priority to push through the Legislature a bill to change the...
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Frontage road probe: Reeves refutes Hood’s findings, pans report as...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaLt. Gov. Tate Reeves speaks to supporters during his election watch party after winning the GOP nomination for governor Tuesday, August 27, 2019....
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