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‘We’re watching this train wreck’: UMMC chief says governor should postpone...
UMMC CommunicationsDr. LouAnn Woodward, the vice chancellor of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, at a press conference at UMMC. A top public health official said on Monday that Gov. Tate...
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Gov. Reeves bucks expert advice, delays school for just 7% of Mississippi...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayGov. Tate Reeves speaks to media during a press conference Friday, April 24, 2020, at the State of Mississippi Woolfolk Building in Jackson, Miss. Gov. Reeves signed a...
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Reeves delays start of school only in hot spots, orders statewide mask mandate
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaGov. Tate Reeves and Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs speak to the media about the coronavirus during a press conference at the...
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While others delay or cancel football over COVID-19 fears, state’s private...
MRA athleticsMississippi’s private schools, such as Madison Ridgeland Academy and Presbyterian Christian, shown here from a 2019 game, plan to start the 2020 season on time in the midst of the COVID-19...
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‘It’s an artifact’: Mississippi officially retires its state flag to a museum
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayMississippi Highway Patrol officers furl the state flag outside of the Capitol in Jackson on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Mississippi’s former state flag with the divisive...
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Gallery | First Day of School for Neshoba County
PHILADELPHIA — Neshoba Central Middle School Principal Cody Killen walked down the school’s quiet halls Wednesday morning before entering into Kristian Swearingen’s English class during the first day...
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Where there’s uncertainty in the pandemic, poverty is a constant
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayKeri Marshall (far right) talks to the landlord of the home from where her mother, who passed recently, was evicted, while her niece Lillian Cayson and her three...
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Biloxi’s Bob Morrison: a half-miler, a nuclear engineer and a Grammy-winning...
Mississippi State athleticsMore than a half century later, four members of the 1962 SEC Championship track and field team kneel in front of their team photo. The four are from left to right: Malcolm...
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Author Angie Thomas talks self-doubt, giving back, her own biases and...
Author Angie Thomas talks self-doubt, giving back, her own biases and homegrown recognition amidst a complicated relationship with Mississippi By Erica Hensley | August 9, 2020 When Angie Thomas got...
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PGA’s Sanderson Farms Championship will be played without spectators in October
Rick ClevelandJoe Sanderson, with the PGA Tour’s Fed Ex Cup trophy on his left and the Sanderson Farms Championship trophy on his right. The Sanderson Farms Championship, Mississippi’s lone tournament...
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State flag commission announces 147 finalists of nearly 3,000 submissions
Several of the finalists selected by the state flag commission. The nine-member commission tasked with choosing one design for the new Mississippi state flag announced 147 finalists on Monday after...
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COVID-19 forces golf phenom Cohen Trolio to withdraw from national championship
Courtesy, Trolio familyCohen Trolio (right), with his father V.J. Trollo, at last year’s U.S. Amateur in Pinehurst, N.C. Teen-aged golf sensation Cohen Trolio of West Point was supposed to tee off...
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‘Punch in the face, stab in the back’: Legislature overrides Gov. Reeves’...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaGov. Tate Reeves answers questions during a press conference concerning the coronavirus pandemic. The Republican-led Mississippi Legislature on...
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Hyde-Smith at center of national debate on removing Confederate statues from...
Rogelio V. Solis, APMississippi Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith, left, thanks Gov. Phil Bryant, center, for selecting her to succeed fellow Republican Thad Cochran in the U.S. Senate on...
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During another spending fight with Gov. Reeves, lawmakers leave without...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayMississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn speaks during Gov. Tate Reeves’ press conference on May 7, 2020. The Mississippi Legislature, as it did in July, left Jackson on...
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Mississippians file lawsuit to expand voting access during COVID-19 pandemic
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaA voter walks into Twin Lakes Baptist Church in Madison, Miss., Tuesday, November 5, 2019. A group of Mississippians filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking...
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Gunn, Hosemann name Mississippi flag redesign appointments. Reeves still hasn’t.
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayHouse Speaker Philip Gunn, left, Executive Director of Mississippi Department of Archives and History Katie Blount, and Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann prepare to deliver the...
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As COVID-19 deaths increase, Bolivar County coroner requests more body storage
Ashley F.G. Norwood, Mississippi TodayA lab tech prepares a body for autopsy in the Mississippi Medical Examiner’s office in Pearl. CLEVELAND — Bolivar County Coroner Rudy Seals is one homicide away...
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Mississippi’s COVID-19 cases fall in last week, but positivity rate remains high
This past week Mississippi’s state health department has reported the lowest daily case totals of COVID-19 in about a month, but the state’s test positivity rate remains one of the highest in the...
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Espy, Hyde-Smith campaigns release dueling polls in Mississippi Senate race
Mike Espy and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith An internal poll released by Democrat Mike Espy’s U.S. Senate campaign on Thursday reports he’s gaining ground and is within five points of incumbent Republican Sen....
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