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Legislators could grapple with expanded early voting when session resumes
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaSen. David Blount speaks to Getty Israel during a committee meeting about Medicaid at the Mississippi State Capitol Tuesday, February 4, 2020....
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Mississippi’s only abortion clinic still open, but a legal battle could be on...
Rogelio V. Solis, APJackson Women’s Health Organization clinic The sole abortion clinic in Mississippi is open and accepting appointments while fully complying with state orders about COVID-19,...
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Another Delta town will lose its school as district navigates shrinking...
Pixabay.comThe West Bolivar Consolidated School District faced three options for merging the schools. The town of Benoit will lose it’s only school and students will now have a 40 minute bus ride to...
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Multiple waves, mass deaths and a $5 billion economic hit: Inside...
It was designed for the flu, but the coronavirus put it into motion. More than 10 years ago, Mississippi health and government officials began developing a comprehensive plan in preparation for a...
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“We are still in the eye of the storm”: Reeves extends shelter-in-place...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaGov. Tate Reeves speaks to media about his shelter-in-place order for Lauderdale County during a press conference at the State of Mississippi...
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Fearing coronavirus, many rural black women avoid hospitals to give birth at...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaBlack women in Southern states have less access to health care providers and travel longer distances to care. Pregnant women in Tennessee, Arkansas...
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Director Tate Taylor uses love of preservation to lift up Mississippi
Photo: Historic Natchez Foundation The main house of Wyolah Plantation in Church Hill near Natchez “I’m in beautiful Gretna, Louisiana,” Tate Taylor said, perhaps a note of satisfaction ringing over...
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Another Delta town will lose its school as district navigates shrinking...
Pixabay.comThe West Bolivar Consolidated School District faced three options for merging the schools. The town of Benoit will lose it’s only school and students will now have a 40 minute bus ride to...
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Of Pistol Pete and Wondrous Wendell and a preliminary game-turned-main event
Courtesy of LSU AthleticsBefore Pistol Pete Maravich hit the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1968, he hit the court in Hattiesburg in 1967 for one memorable night. So, I was doing a podcast with a...
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Opponents Hyde-Smith, Espy both support expanding small business loan program
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy support more funding for the Payroll Protection Program. Both Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy, her Democratic opponent in this November’s general...
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Suspension of teacher license test amid COVID-19 crisis likely to ‘open up...
PixabaySome educators say that having the Praxis exam as the main path to a licence fails both would-be teachers and students. After serving in the military and graduating from Delta State University,...
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New Albany’s Gray Spencer: Just call him ‘Miracle Man’
New Albany’s Gray Spencer: Call him ‘Miracle Man’ Ole Miss basketball manager has made a remarkable recovery from a horrific auto accident just five weeks ago. By Rick Cleveland | April 23, 2020...
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Shalondra Rollins was taking care of her health and climbing out of poverty....
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For America Cassandra Rollins gazes down at her daughter, Shalondra Rollins, who died after complications of COVID-19, at the Jackson Memorial Funeral Home on...
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‘A Good Meal is Hard to Find’ cookbook showcases charming blend of Southern...
On a spring day in 2014, while in the parking lot of a H-E-B supermarket in Houston, Amy Evans received a phone call from a close friend from the Mississippi Delta. “Martha randomly dialed me up and...
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Community health program invests in pregnant women early to disrupt...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaTiffany Wells sits with her daughter while holding a sonogram image of her daughter, Azuri. For the last three months, Tiffany Wells has had one...
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March without the Madness? April without baseball? Just when we most need...
Ole Miss athletic communicationsIf not for COVID-19, Oxford-University Stadium would have been packed just like this for LSU this weekend. Given the widespread sports postponements and cancellations...
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Reeves opens most businesses, but not establishments like salons and spas...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayAn empty parking lot at the Dogwood Festival Market in Flowood, Miss. Businesses have been closed in the state to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Retailers will be...
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Marino Casem, Hall of Fame Alcorn coach and ‘Godfather of the SWAC,’ dies at 85
Rick ClevelandMarino Casem, left, with Leslie Frazier at Frazier’s 2017 induction into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. This was 17 years ago, the summer of 2003. My assignment was to cover the...
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Another Delta town will lose its school as district navigates shrinking...
Pixabay.comThe West Bolivar Consolidated School District faced three options for merging the schools. The town of Benoit will lose it’s only school and students will now have a 40 minute bus ride to...
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COVID-19 relief bill: Espy says Hyde-Smith blasting Democrats for advocating...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for AmericaThe Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mike Espy rematch rematch is shaping up to be competitive despite the current limitation on campaigning because of the...
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