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Hosemann says session to resume on May 18, business as usual plus pandemic...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaDelbert Hosemann during the opening day of the legislative session in the Mississippi House chambers at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday,...
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Is Tommy Stevens Saints’ next Taysom Hill? Joe Moorhead believes he has the...
hailstate.comTommy Stevens’ next football will be with the Saints. The NFL Draft was rocking along, nearing its end, and then, rolling across the bottom of our TV screens, came this bolt out of the...
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‘It’s extremely heartbreaking’: After 104 years, Delta community’s newspaper...
Kelsey Davis BetzThe 104-year-old The Bolivar Commercial published its last edition April 29. CLEVELAND — Along with everything else we knew to be a part of normal, everyday life, Bolivar County...
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A Flood of Catastrophe: How a warming climate and the Bonnet Carré Spillway...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today Shrimper Bob Wolcott. Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. A Flood of Catastrophe: How a warming climate and the Bonnet Carré Spillway threaten the survival of Coast fishermen...
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‘It all got ripped away’: Communities, families turn to ‘adopt a senior’...
Photos provided by students' family(Clockwise from left) Seniors Khya Gaines of Vicksburg High School, Mary Kingle of Vicksburg High School and Nick Tello, Warren Central High School VICKSBURG — As...
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‘There’s a stranger sleeping in my bed’: Legislative Democrats have rare...
Aallyah Wright, Mississippi TodayState Rep. John Hines speaks out on challenges in the Greenville public schools. A tense struggle for power between Republican legislative leaders and the Republican...
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Gallery | Reopen Mississippi and open carry rally
Nearly 100 people gathered outside of the Mississippi State Capitol on Friday to support the state’s open carry law and to protest the closure of nonessential businesses. Some of those in attendance...
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Photo Gallery: Mississippi Latino by Rory Doyle
My work in Mississippi often focuses on the unique and diverse cultures that exist in our state. On and off since 2013, I have been attending masses, taking part in holiday ceremonies and visiting...
View ArticleLawmakers strip Gov. Tate Reeves’ spending authority of more than $1.25...
The Republican-led Mississippi Legislature voted to strip Republican Gov. Tate Reeves of his sole spending authority of more than a billion dollars in federal coronavirus stimulus funds on Friday....
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Why Republican legislators might be tougher on Reeves than on recent past...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaFormer Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour attends Gov. Tate Reeves’ inauguration ceremony inside the House chamber at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss....
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‘Cheap theatrics and false personal insults’: Speaker Gunn blisters Gov....
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaMississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn speaks during the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Speaker of the House...
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Delta families without running water get funding, but new well construction...
Aallyah Wright, Mississippi TodayMinerva Clemon, 70, lives on the outskirts of Schlater, where she has been without running water since July. SCHLATER — In November, reports of Minerva Clemon’s...
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Reeves further reopens state economy, including restaurant dine-in service
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaGov. Tate Reeves answers questions during a press conference concerning the coronavirus pandemic. Despite two of the last four days showing the...
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View ArticleAnalysis: Gov. Reeves’ stance in 2016 ‘demon chipmunk’ case could conflict...
A stance Gov. Tate Reeves made in the 2016 “demon chipmunk” case could conflict with the position he is now taking on whether the Legislature followed the state constitution last Friday when they...
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State’s restaurants face precarious future even after Reeves’ new executive...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayThird generation restauranteur Jerry Kountouris, owner of Mayflower Café, holds a photograph of his father, Mike Kountouris, inside of his restaurant in Jackson, Miss.,...
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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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‘Increasingly absurd expenditures’: Newly-released audit questions $94...
Anna Wolfe Families First for Mississippi’s former west Jackson office, inside a now shuttered grocery store and run by Mississippi Community Education Center, sat empty one morning in October of...
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COVID-19 confirmed at four Mississippi mental health facilities
The Mississippi Department of Mental Health confirmed Friday that 56 patients and an unknown number of staff at four of its 12 facilities have confirmed COVID-19 infections—a much higher number than...
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Reeves, legislative showdown: Federal funds always part of state budget
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayState representatives prepare to make decision on Gov. Tate Reeves spending authority over federal coronavirus stimulus money, at the statehouse in Jackson, Miss.,...
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