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Mississippi cop who shot an 11-year-old in the chest after his mother called 911 for help will face no criminal charges
A grand jury in Mississippi declined to press charges against a police officer who shot Aderrien Mu…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Why did Democrats win the Kentucky governor's race but come up short in Mississippi? It was an election cycle of unique contrasts.
Gov. Andy Beshear ran up huge margins in metro areas across Kentucky. Such a feat is extremely diff…
John L. Dorman
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At least 2,000 Mississippi nurses have resigned since the beginning of the year, severely straining hospitals as COVID cases multiply
The shortfall of nurses comes as the state battles the Delta variant, setting a new record Tuesday …
Kenneth Niemeyer
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How Democrat Brandon Presley could win the Mississippi governor's race and pull off one of the biggest political upsets of 2023
Presley has visited all 82 counties in Mississippi, courted the state's Black voters, and ran heavi…
John L. Dorman
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A Mississippi hospital is canceling brain and heart surgeries because COVID-19 patients are taking up all the ICU beds
"As soon as we make a bed, it's given to the next person who's not doing well," an ICU manager at M…
Yelena Dzhanova
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5 southern states have seen vaccine uptake more than triple in the past month. It's not just the Delta variant that's making people clamor for first shots.
Insider spoke to experts in the Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, where vaccine …
Marianne Guenot
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A Mississippi nurse said she quit her job in the ICU because she doesn't 'have any strength left' after seeing her hospital overwhelmed amid low vaccination rates
"I've seen more death than I thought I would see in my entire life," Jen Sartin, an ICU nurse in Mi…
Taylor Ardrey
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Delta variant hits hard in the five worst states for vaccination rates: It's spreading 'like a tsunami,' one health official says
In descending order, the five states with the lowest vaccination rates are Alabama, Louisiana, Wyom…
Yelena Dzhanova
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I have lupus and racked up more than $190,000 in medical debt. Where I live in Mississippi, ambulances won't even come for us.
She was diagnosed with lupus and racked up $190,000 in debt. It took her months to get help in Miss…
Conz Preti
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A second straight year of flooding is threatening another year of crops for Mississippi farmers
The southern Mississippi Delta region, one of the poorest in the US, still hasn't recovered from 20…
Nathan Willis,Barbara Corbellini Duarte,Dylan Bank,Mark Abadi
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As Delta surges, 4 states reach new pandemic peaks for daily COVID-19 cases - but in the states with higher vaccine rates and mask mandates, ICUs are less busy
Despite high cases, Oregon and Hawaii are doing better than Florida and Mississipi because of vacci…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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If Mississippi were a country, it'd have reported the world's 2nd-most COVID-19 deaths per capita, but Gov. Tate Reeves won't say how he plans to fix it
Roughly one out of every 320 Mississippians is known to have died from COVID-19, the highest rate i…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Mississippi gov. says Biden's vaccine mandate is an 'attack' on 'hard-working Americans' while the state has the highest per-capita death rate
"I'm saying to you, your way's not working," CNN's Jake Tapper said to Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves…
Connor Perrett
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Mississippi teachers beg for help after more than 18,000 students catch COVID-19 in one month: 'At what point do we protect children over the economy?'
Teachers told Insider that Gov. Tate Reeves is avoiding the question of when children's health come…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Mississippi orders everyone who's tested positive for COVID-19 to isolate at home as cases continue to surge
With just 36.6% of residents fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, Mississippi has the second-l…
Yelena Dzhanova
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A Mississippi 8th-grader - who'd only been in school for just over a week - died of COVID-19 hours after testing positive
The school she attended didn't require masks for the first few days - until cases began cropping up…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Over 4,000 students were quarantined in Mississippi as the school year kicks off during a COVID-19 surge
More than 4,400 students in the state were quarantined after being exposed to COVID-19, just as the…
Rebecca Cohen
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The University of Southern Mississippi is paying tuition and housing for some vaccinated students to encourage them to get the shot
Mississippi has one of the country's lowest vaccination rates and is experiencing a COVID-19 surge …
Kelsey Vlamis
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7 children admitted to ICU's in low-vax Mississippi after coming down with severe cases of COVID-19
Mississippi has the lowest vaccination rate in the country, with roughly only a third of the popula…
Sophia Ankel
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American, Delta, and United have collectively dropped 74 US airports since the pandemic see the full list
Regional cities are a common casualty of the pandemic, but travel analyst Henry Harteveldt says air…