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Nearly half of rural hospitals at risk of closure in Mississippi, new data shows
Almost half of Mississippi’s rural hospitals could close, according to a newly updated report.
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Where the sheriff is king, these women say one of Mississippi’s top lawmen coerced them into sex
by Ilyssa Daly and Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today July 19, 2023 In 2012, three months after Eddie Scott became sheriff of Clay County, Miss., a ...
by Mississippi Today, Thursday, July 20, 2023 5:32 am
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Police looking for Mississippi murder suspects who may have escaped to Texas or neighboring states
Police are looking for two suspects connected to the June 8 murder of a Mississippi man. The Vicksburg Police Department is currently looking for two ...
by Mississippi Today, Monday, June 12, 2023 12:58 pm
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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 ...
by Mississippi Today, Wednesday, May 24, 2023 1:38 pm
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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.