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Droughts killed more than 12 million trees in Mississippi and no one has the money to cut them down
Timber farmers are expected to lose $96 million after droughts killed more than 12 million pine tre…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Man uses truck to repeatedly block entrance to Mississippi's only abortion clinic as tensions run high after Roe v. Wade ruling
The Jackson Women's Health Organization, the only abortion clinic in Mississippi, has vowed to rema…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Mississippi's only abortion clinic says it will keep providing abortions for at least 10 more days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade
Diane Derzis, owner of the Jackson Women's Health Clinic, said she plans to open clinics in other p…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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A Mississippi public health official will forever be tied to the Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade. It's not clear how he feels about that.
Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the health official named on the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe V. Wade…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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A lawsuit seeking to reinstate abortion in Mississippi has been dropped after the state's last clinic was shut down and sold
The state's last abortion clinic — which was at the center of the landmark Supreme Court case overt…
Rebecca Cohen
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A year after death of a Mississippi man in police custody, Insider ramps up its probe into 1 county's practices
Insider requested records related to five deaths in one year connected to a single Mississippi sher…
Kenneth Niemeyer,Hannah Beckl…
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Mississippi sheriff overseeing violent department faces yet another lawsuit after yet another man dies in custody
The Rankin County Sheriff's Department, already under scrutiny for a string of violent incidents, n…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Mississippi sheriff whose deputies tortured Black people and called themselves the 'Goon Squad' wins reelection
Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey won reelection after running unopposed. The NAACP had called for…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Police arrested a man in connection with several building fires, including Black churches, across Jackson, Mississippi
Police in Jackson, Mississippi arrested a man in connection with seven fires across the state's cap…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Mississippi's Jackson airport evacuated passengers and employees after receiving 'verbal security threat'
The airport's operator, JMAA, said in a tweet on Monday that the Transportation Security Administra…
Rebecca Ungarino
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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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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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Federal authorities are investigating if the Mississippi sheriff who oversaw the 'Goon Squad' helped a fellow cop get out of a DUI
Rankin County, Mississippi, Sheriff Bryan Bailey has been under scrutiny since five of his deputies…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Mississippi sheriff who oversaw 'goon squad' was once investigated for subpoenaing his own girlfriend's phone records
The Rankin County Sheriff who oversaw the so-called "goon squad" was also investigated for subpoena…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Mississippi governor declares a state of emergency as Jackson loses safe drinking water 'for an unknown period of time'
Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said Jackson's main water system is "on the brink of collapsing" as Missi…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Second-in-command at a Mississippi sheriff's department that oversaw a 'goon squad' that tortured Black men has resigned
Rankin County Undersheriff Paul Holley resigned amid misconduct allegations against Sheriff Bryan B…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says it's 'a great day to not be in Jackson,' where residents went without clean running water for weeks
The city's more than 150,000 residents lost access to clean running water after severe flooding dam…
Sarah Jackson
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Mississippi cops convicted of torturing Black men also took part in the police shooting of another Black man, lawsuit says
Two convicted "Goon Squad" officers were also named in a lawsuit over the police shooting of Pierre…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Mississippi sheriff who oversaw 'goon squad' that tortured Black men fights for immunity in yet another case of excessive force
Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey has overseen a department at the center of several killings and …
Kenneth Niemeyer
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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…