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- A Mississippi woman is serving life for murder. But was the death involved really a suicide?
Thursday - 01/20/2022 - 10:36 PMTameshia Shelton's case for a new trial won support in December when the state's pathologist reversed their previous ruling.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Man charged in shooting near Missississippi State, authorities hunt for two juveniles
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 05:08 PMAuthorities are investigating a shooting near Mississippi State University that injured two people.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - PHOTOS: Meridian takes on Olive Branch in Girls Rumble in the South
Sunday - 01/16/2022 - 07:00 AMMeridian faces Olive Branch in the Girls Rumble in the South basketball tournament at Mississippi College in Clinton.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - COVID cases are at an all-time high in Mississippi. Are vaccination rates following?
Sunday - 01/16/2022 - 10:00 PMOn Saturday, 45% of residents are fully immunized compared to the 63% of people in the United States.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - MPD lieutenant shot in 'ambush' outside Olive Branch home, officials say
Monday - 01/17/2022 - 11:51 AMThe officer, who was off duty, is expected to recover.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - PHOTOS: Harrison Central takes on Clinton
Tuesday - 01/18/2022 - 09:47 AMHarrison Central faces Clinton in the Rumble in the South basketball tournament at Mississippi College in Clinton.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mississippi man chased by police found dead days later
Tuesday - 01/18/2022 - 12:47 PMFriends and family of a Mississippi man found dead nearly a week after police chased him there want to know how he died.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Several Miss. school districts closed due to COVID-19 infections among staff, teachers
Tuesday - 01/18/2022 - 04:58 PMSchool districts in Oxford, Simpson County and Vicksburg temporarily closed before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday due to COVID-19.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Severe storms Wednesday in Mississippi; cold temperatures, freezing rain by the weekend
Wednesday - 01/19/2022 - 01:22 PMSevere weather and colder temperatures are in the forecast again as an arctic blast begins pushing into the Jackson, MS area Wednesday afternoon.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tracking COVID-19 in Mississippi: 8,329 cases, 17 deaths reported Thursday
Thursday - 01/20/2022 - 02:48 PMSince the virus hit the state in March 2020, a total of 673,873 COVID-19 cases and 10,707 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported.
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- Mississippi Senate passes $210-million teacher pay raise plan. It heads to House
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 05:18 PMThe Senate plan would raise the average teacher salary in Mississippi by roughly $4,700 and first-year teachers would start at $39,000, up $2,000.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Southern Miss President Rodney Bennett announces he will leave at end of contract in 2023
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 07:53 PM"The time is coming for me to step aside for another individual to chart the path for the next chapter in our Southern Miss story," he said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Legacy and impact of Martin Luther King Jr. still struggling to be heard in Mississippi
Sunday - 01/16/2022 - 10:00 PMScholars and experts in Mississippi feel the history of MLK and the civil rights movement is only given cursory treatment in its classrooms.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Snowfall in Mississippi 2022
Monday - 01/17/2022 - 09:47 AMSee images submitted from social media of snow that blanketed portions of Mississippi on Sunday, January, 16, 2022.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Flights delayed, canceled as Jackson airport evacuated for bomb threat
Monday - 01/17/2022 - 05:35 PMAuthorities evacuated the Jackson airport Monday afternoon due to a security threat, an airport official said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two Jackson area students chosen for 60th United States Senate Youth Program
Tuesday - 01/18/2022 - 11:05 AMSeniors Emily Adcock and Vaibhavi Mahajan will represent Mississippi at the United States Senate Youth Program and learn about public policy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Yazoo City federal prison has nearly 500 inmates with COVID-19, most among federal prisons
Tuesday - 01/18/2022 - 04:23 PMFCI Yazoo City, a medium security federal prison, has 472 inmates and six staff members with COVID-19, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Dead zone' leads innocent Mississippi man to spend six years behind bars for murder
Tuesday - 01/18/2022 - 10:00 PMThousands of Mississippians are locked up in jails awaiting trial because they can't afford a lawyer.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mississippi House approves amended medical marijuana bill, sending it back to Senate
Thursday - 01/20/2022 - 09:37 AMThe House's amendments lowers the amount of marijuana a person can buy a week and shifts the entire program under the health department's purview.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Experts say Mississippi's abstinence-based sex ed is failing teens, second-highest teen birth rate
Wednesday - 01/19/2022 - 10:00 PMMississippi has the second-highest teen birth rate in the U.S. About 29 out of 1,000 MS teenagers gave birth in 2019. Experts want better Sex Ed.
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- Black lawmakers walk off MS Senate floor in protest of critical race theory bill
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 05:48 PMThe bill's author was unable to define critical race theory, and said he isn't aware of any school teaching it. The Senate passed it anyway.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - PHOTOS: Madison Central takes on Ridgeland in Girls Rumble in the South tournament
Saturday - 01/15/2022 - 06:14 PMMadison Central faces Ridgeland in the Girls Rumble in the South basketball tournament at Mississippi College in Clinton.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Snow blankets parts of Mississippi
Sunday - 01/16/2022 - 10:57 AMAs temperatures drop, the rain will transition into snow for the Mississippi Delta region late Saturday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Snow in Mississippi: 'We are looking at a rather chilly day' after 7-9 inches reported
Monday - 01/17/2022 - 09:48 AMWeather service officials say the snowfall is expected to continue as the system moves east and southward Sunday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Snowfall in Mississippi 2022 | Photos
Monday - 01/17/2022 - 12:59 PMSee submitted photos of snowfall in Mississippi.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What we know: FedEx Ground to bring 200 new jobs to Hattiesburg-Laurel Regional Airport
Tuesday - 01/18/2022 - 12:23 PMThe number of full- and part-time jobs will be adjusted seasonally.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Free at-home COVID tests can now be ordered via the US Postal Service. Here's how
Wednesday - 01/19/2022 - 10:36 AMMississippians can order at-home COVID-19 tests through the U.S. Postal Service now.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New proposal could bring students back to Brown Elementary, Rowan Middle in Midtown
Wednesday - 01/19/2022 - 12:22 PMRent of purchase of one of the two vacant schools in Midtown would allow for expansion of Midtown Public Charter School, President Jennifer West said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - More than 23,500 Mississippi students quarantined Jan. 10-14 due to COVID-19 exposure
Wednesday - 01/19/2022 - 04:53 PMFrom Jan. 10 to 14, 23,501 Mississippi students and 1,602 teachers were quarantined due to exposure to the coronavirus.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - When should children learn about MLK or labor laws? New MS standards could push lessons back
Thursday - 01/20/2022 - 04:05 PMMississippi was the first state in the nation to create a K-12 curriculum for civil rights history, but experts say it's not used effectively.
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