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‘This is not OK’: Mother of 11-year-old Mississippi boy shot by police pleads for answers
Days after an 11-year-old boy was shot in the chest by an Indianola police officer, family and community members are calling for answers and for ...
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He wrote Mississippi governor a $25,000 check. Three weeks later, Reeves appointed him to the Gaming Commission.
Gulfport Memorial Hospital CEO Kent Nicaud wrote Gov. Tate Reeves a $25,000 campaign check about three weeks before the governor appointed him to a significant ...
by Mississippi Today, Friday, May 19, 2023 4:59 pm
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Ex-Ole Miss student has attempted murder charge dismissed four days into trial
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today May 11, 2023 A Union County judge has dismissed an attempted murder charge against a 24-year-old former Ole Miss student ...
by Mississippi Today, Friday, May 12, 2023 5:40 am
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University of Mississippi Medical Center lets go of most instructors for Oxford nursing program
The University of Mississippi Medical Center has let go nearly all of the instructors at its Oxford-based accelerated bachelors of science in nursing program, prompting ...
by Mississippi Today, Wednesday, May 10, 2023 3:56 pm
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Mississippi Today, reporter win Pulitzer Prize for investigation into $77 million state welfare scandal
by Mississippi Today May 8, 2023 Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for her remarkable investigation “The Backchannel,” ...
by Mississippi Today, Monday, May 8, 2023 2:41 pm
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Former Mississippi governor promised to release ‘all’ his welfare scandal-related texts. But some key ones are missing.
Former Gov. Phil Bryant opted Thursday to release hundreds of pages of text messages with figures in the Mississippi welfare scandal after initially fighting a ...
by Mississippi Today, Friday, May 5, 2023 5:54 am
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Sex Abuse, Beatings and an Untouchable Mississippi Sheriff
As abuse allegations in a rural jail piled up, criminal inquiries dragged on or went nowhere. No one scrutinized how the sheriff ran his jail.
by Mississippi Today, Thursday, April 13, 2023 11:40 am
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Mississippi woman arrested after striking deputy in face, making threats to kill officer
A Mississippi woman was arrested after she reportedly became combative and struck a deputy in the face. On March 30, Pike County deputies were dispatched ...
by Mississippi Today, Thursday, April 6, 2023 6:45 am
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Body of man who fell into river found more than a month after he went missing
Missing for more than a month, the body of Donny Mitchell was recovered late Tuesday afternoon from the Mississippi River. Mitchell, 50, of Clayton, Louisiana, ...
by Mississippi Today, Wednesday, March 15, 2023 6:21 am
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Jackson State University president put on administrative leave; Mississippi officials offer no details as to why
by Kayleigh Skinner, Mississippi Today March 2, 2023 Jackson State University President Thomas Hudson has been put on administrative leave with pay, the Institutions for ...