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Clarksdale mayor asks residents to clean up their neighborhoods as more city...
Anna Wolfe / Mississippi TodayClarksdale Mayor Chuck Espy CLARKSDALE — City employees across all departments are seeing upticks in COVID-19 cases, leaving a shortage of employees to keep the town...
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The trouble with contact tracing in Mississippi
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaA student walks up the steps of the Ole Miss Student Union Monday, October 7, 2019. What Oxford’s missing COVID-19 cases tell us about contact...
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Furr’s magical U.S. Am week dead-ends, shows that golf often really isn’t fair
USGA/Steven GibbonsNot long after sunrise Thursday, Wilson Furr plays his second shot at the first hole at the U.S. Amateur at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Bandon, Ore. Jack Nicklaus, the most...
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State flag commission makes tweaks, narrows choices to nine
The Mississippi Flag Commission met Friday planning to narrow choices for a new state flag to five, but instead ended up with nine after much debate and tweaking of designs. Those nine designs are...
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How teachers are dealing with student trauma
Students stand six feet apart as they wait to enter Ambition Prep in Jackson, Miss., Friday, August 7, 2020. “There are a lot of things happening in our country that students have feelings about.” As...
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Mike Espy believes Kamala Harris on Democratic ticket boosts his Senate chances
Kamala Harris speaks with presumptive Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden on Aug. 13. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mike Espy stops short — just short — of saying...
View ArticleSmall town, big bust: Auditor announces Mississippi embezzlement arrest
As the city of Columbus was struggling financially, its Chief Financial Officer Milton Rawle Jr. was allegedly embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars — the largest municipal embezzlement case in...
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‘Not a good look’: Rep. Wilkes says posting photo of Confederate battle flag...
A screenshot of Rep. Wilkes’ now-deleted tweet. State Rep. Stacey Hobgood-Wilkes, R-Picayune, said she didn’t mean to tweet a photo of the Confederate battle flag in response to a tweet reminding...
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This college football season, if we have one, might be strangest since 1918...
If we do have a college football season in Mississippi — and I still think it’s 50-50 at this point — we’re looking at quite possibly the most abnormal season since 1918. That’s when Mississippi State...
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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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Democrat Mike Espy outraises GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith nearly 3-to-1
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaMike Espy, a former congressman and former U.S. agriculture secretary, announces that he is running against U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in 2020 for...
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COVID-19 cases continue to decrease, but testing hits a three-month low
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today Yvonne Moore tests Charles Holmes for COVID-19 outside of the Aaron E Henry Community Health Services Center in Clarksdale, Miss., Wednesday, March 29, 2020....
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Teachers share grim details of Mississippi school districts failing to uphold...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayA Neshoba County School District student looks out the window of a school bus after the first day of school on Wednesday, August 5, 2020. Teachers at a school in the...
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The trouble with contact tracing in Mississippi
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaA student walks up the steps of the Ole Miss Student Union Monday, October 7, 2019. What Oxford’s missing COVID-19 cases tell us about contact...
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‘You gotta live smart’: MRA’s Herbert Davis, in stage 5 kidney failure,...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi TodayHerbert Davis, who suffers from stage 5 kidney failure, coaches his MRA Patriots from a mechanical lift. It’s 92 degrees in the shade and at least 110 on the...
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Reeves says unemployed Mississippians will likely receive $300 per week...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaGov. Tate Reeves speaks to media during a press conference on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Mississippians unemployed during the COVID-19 pandemic are...
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Gov. Tate Reeves bans tailgating, limits crowds at college football games to 25%
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for AmericaUniversity of Mississippi fans cheer during the Ole Miss-Alabama game on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. No tailgating and other social gatherings will...
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As storms head toward Gulf Coast, Legislature slated to return Monday to pass...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaGov. Tate Reeves speaks to media about his shelter-in-place order for Lauderdale County, as Executive Director of MEMA Col. Gregory S. Michel...
View ArticleUnemployment rate — and the number of people seeking work — jumped in July as...
Mississippi’s unemployment rate jumped 2% from June to July as more people began seeking work in the fourth month of the COVID-19 pandemic. Extended unemployment benefits — which offered an additional...
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The trouble with contact tracing in Mississippi
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaA student walks up the steps of the Ole Miss Student Union Monday, October 7, 2019. What Oxford’s missing COVID-19 cases tell us about contact...
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